Today has been Lincoln’s Birthday, but unfortunately it was not a day off of work.

However, it did not stop me from remembering one of my favorite presidents. I was looking to see if I had a picture of just the Lincoln Marx Figure, but couldn’t find one. I need to take one 🙂

I used this picture in my post President’s, Presidents’ or Presidents which is about what is the correct way to refer to the holiday next Monday.

See: Marx Presidents

Tonight when I got home I decided to dig through a few of my stacks and find some of the books that I have about President Lincoln. This is just a portion of the books that I have about him.

I will list the ones shown here:

• Lincoln: A Novel by Gore Vidal
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance by Frances Cavanah
• Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point by Lewis E. Lehrman
• Abraham Lincoln by George McGovern
• Abraham Lincoln: The Boy and the Man by James Morgan
• Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Made America by Garry Wills
• Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
• Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg

Also shown is Gettysburg by MacKinlay Kantor. I had not planned on it being in the picture but I had picked it up while looking for the Lincoln books and I didn’t notice that I had included it. The book is about the Civil War battle and not the speech.

Here is a view of most of the covers. They include some of the best known pictures of President Lincoln.

Since I have posted about books and President Lincoln. Here is a picture of him reading to his son.

I also have a book about Robert Todd Lincoln. Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln by Jason Emerson is a well researched book about the only son of President Lincoln that lived past the age of 18. He is definitely overshadowed by his father and I look forward to reading this book someday. It is near the top of my to-read list. However, my to-read list is ever shifting so who knows when I will get to it 🙂

Did you take time to remember this great president today?

Steven