After Lincoln’s death, biographers claimed him as a devout believer and his friends denied it. Remsburg, a Kansas freethinker, collects the testimony of more than a hundred witnesses, from Holland and Bateman to his law partner William Herndon, and cross-examines each claim, including the authenticity of letters said to prove the president’s faith.
A lively, partisan piece of evidence-gathering on a question still argued over by historians. Download the free EPUB.