The amazing uneducated/self-educated Abraham Lincoln!

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We will never know, but do you think Lincoln could have been blessed with a photographic memory?

Laurie, that's an interesting notion. He certainly may have. Has anyone in the literature addressed the possibility?

I believe I've read that he had a prodigious memory for whatever he had read. Not having that capacity myself I'm trying to remember where I came across the notion. I am thinking it was probably Daniel Epstein's The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage, since that's the biography I read latest, but I'm not sure. Or maybe Bray's Reading With Lincoln.