LIFE magazine's new Lincoln book!

[RJNorton]

Joe, in the book as a whole there are some period photographs I have not seen before. But, specifically, regarding Abraham Lincoln, Mary, and the boys, I do not think there were any photos that were new to me. The photos are larger than in Ostendorf's book, and (to my eyes, anyway) clearer. The side view that Christopher German took on February 9, 1861, is definitely the clearest I have ever seen of that particular image. I have always been somewhat undecided whether or not it's Booth standing high up behind Lincoln at the Second Inaugural, and there is an image in this book that is so clear that I now lean to it indeed being Booth up there. Sure looks like it's him to me.