Excerpt from The Life of Honest Abe, Done Up Brown in JazzistoryCarl Sandburg contributed a flock of info in his books. Ida Tarbell came across, too. (neither one of 'em knew it of course). And about 40 other writers got a going over before I got Booth plugged by Boston Corbett in a burn ing barn.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.