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Learning to Be Lincoln
By DAVID S. REYNOLDS
Do we need yet another book on Lincoln, especially in the wake of all the Lincoln volumes that appeared last year in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of his birth? Well, yes, we do — if the book is by so richly informed a commentator as Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton professor of history at Columbia. Foner tackles what would seem to be an obvious topic, Lincoln and slavery, and manages to cast new light on it.
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With Sojourner Truth in an 1862 print celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation.
THE FIERY TRIAL
Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
By Eric Foner
By Illustrated. 426 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $29.95
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