Tolstoy’s Tribute to Lincoln

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was spot on when she stated in the beginning of her massively successful book The Team of Rivals “the uniquely American story of Abraham Lincoln has unequalled power to captivate the imagination and to inspire emotion.” According to a recent estimate, something like 15,000 to 16,000 books have been written in English on his life and career as president.