About no other American have so many words been written as about Abraham Lincoln. Jay Monaghan's Lincoln Bibliography requires 1,079 pages merely to list the books and pamphlets published before 1939, when even the experts lost count. On library shelves the multi-volumed biographies by Nicolay and Hay, Sandburg, and Randall and Current stand cover to cover with Lincoln Never Smoked a Cigarette and Abraham Lincoln on the Coming of the Caterpillar Tractor. Every February sees a fresh flood of Lincoln Day oratory and verse.
- From Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era by David Donald (published in 1961.)
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