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Lincoln and Darwin had vastly different childhoods.\u00a0 We know that Lincoln was born dirt-poor and was largely self-educated, whereas Darwin was born to wealth and privilege, privy to the best education money could buy. Still, even 200 years later, both have left their mark upon our world.\u00a0 Unfortunately for both, that mark, or legacy, has become somewhat limited over time.<\/p>\n
In the words of Adam Gopnik in his “Twin Peaks” article for the February, 2009 issue of the Smithsonian<\/em>, ” With the usual compression of popular history, their reputations have been reduced to single words . . . “Evolution!”\u00a0 for one and “Emancipation!” for the other.”\u00a0 How true this is.\u00a0 Both were complex individuals who contributed in many other ways to our relative societies.<\/p>\n One of Lincoln’s legacies, of sorts,\u00a0 is the vast amount of literature that has been written about him.\u00a0 At least in the Western world, it is estimated that there have been more books written about Lincoln than any other individual (save possibly Jesus and Napoleon).\u00a0 And still, writers and researchers are uncovering new information and reformatting the old into numerous intriguing titles about Lincoln.\u00a0 Check out some of these new tomes about our legendary 16th President:<\/p>\n In Lincoln’s Hand: his Original Manuscripts<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Charles Flood<\/p>\n “They Have Killed Papa Dead”: the Road to Ford’s Theater, Abraham Lincoln’s Murder and the Rage for Vengeance<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Anthony Pitch<\/p>\n Giants: the Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by John Stauffer<\/p>\n Looking for Lincoln: the Making of an American Icon<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Philip Kunhardt<\/p>\n Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief<\/strong><\/em> <\/a> by James McPherson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lincoln and Darwin had vastly different childhoods.\u00a0 We know that Lincoln was born dirt-poor and was largely self-educated, whereas Darwin was born to wealth and privilege, privy to the best education money could buy. Still, even 200 years later, both have left their mark upon our world.\u00a0 Unfortunately for both,[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[422,441,442,330,443],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-library-displays","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-biographies","tag-biography","tag-history","tag-president"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-BF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}