What are your top five Lincoln books?

[LincolnMan]

Many of us have cited the Lincoln book by Benjamin P. Thomas of one of our top five. Apparently, Carl Sandburg was a fan of the author as well. On the dedication page of Sandburg's one volume edition of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas is listed with several others. Here's what Sandburg said: To Benjamin P. Thomas, a ballplayer and farmer who is a man of learning and integrity, possessed by Lincoln's dream of "man's vast future," a citizen with a deep and keen anxiety about the American Dream-