Joshua Wolf Shenk books

Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness (2006)

I am starting this review with two caveats. First, this book is engagingly written, and Joshua Wolf Shenk has done his research. In spite of this, I don't think it's a good first book for anyone to read on Lincoln, because much of Shenk's focus is on revisionist history. Although he does a laudab...