Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: The Man and the CrisisHE basis of this little book is a centenary address given by the author at Bowdoin College, February 12, 1909, and at Augusta, Maine, on the same day, at a Lincoln celebration by the State Legislature. The author makes no claim to original investigation. He has gathered the facts chie¿y from the many different biographies of Lincoln, has sought, amid the con¿icting statements that cluster around the life of this great man, to dis criminate between the true and the false, and either in the text or the appended references has cited the important sources of his information, and has endeavored to give credit where credit is due.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.