This is the most objective biography of A. Lincoln among all others. It was first published in 1952 and republished by Barnes and Noble 1994. Mine is a new book without dust cover. I cannot find it, but if and when I do, I will send it to buyer. There are excellent reviews to befound of this book better reviews then I can give you but it traces Lincoln from his impoverished childhood through his youth and young manhood and rambling around Illinois and into Politics. From there we are all familiar with the life of Lincoln until his assassination by Booth that scene appears pages 519-20.