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In this light and enjoyable biography of America's 16th president, Henry Ketcham draws heavily on personal accounts to portray a more human and accesible Lincoln. Ketcham notes that there has been so much written about Lincoln that the legend has begun to obscure, if not to efface, the man. As he writes: ?In this biography the single purpose has been to present the living man with such distinctness of outline that the reader may have a sort of feeling of being acquainted with him.? Ketcham?s clearly-written, unadorned account of Lincoln?s life achieves its stated purpose, never removing its focus from the man who became one of America's greatest presidents and led the nation through some of its most turbulent and difficult times.