Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point by Lewis E. Lehrman, Stackpole Books, 2008, $29.95 For five years following his lone term as a U.S. congressman in 1847-49, Abraham Lincoln remained outside the political landscape. But as Lincoln scholar Lewis Lehrman points out in this enjoyable new book, that all changed dramatically on October 16, 1854, …
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