What did Lincoln read?

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(02-05-2017 04:12 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Interesting note on Lincoln's readings as found in article 'Lincoln's Jesse W. Weik Part 2" from The Lincoln Herald Summer 2016 Vol. 118 Number 2:
"...Lincoln did not like biographers...One remembers that Herndon, who pushed books at Lincoln, tried to get him to read a life of Burke. Lincoln declined on the ground that biographies were one-sided and colored."

Never heard that before about Lincoln.

I had not heard that before either. I have heard many times that Lincoln read Weems' The Life of Washington and that it was a book that left a positive impression on him. So it would seem there is at least one biography that he read and held in esteem.