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          The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Complete One Volume History of His. Life and Times.!

          Notes - A. Lincoln: A Biography - by Ronald C. White Jr.

        1. Abraham Lincoln (12 February – 15 April ) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March until his assassination in April
        2. The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Complete One Volume History of His. Life and Times.
        3. Flexner was the "Coxswain of Erudition." He was the little guy, with the megaphone at the back of the higher education boat, who was vocal and observant.
        4. *The author is lecturer in history in Columbia University and joint author with Harry J. Carman of the volume on Lincoln and the Patronage.

          5. Early on in Harvard biblicist Jon D. Levenson’s engaging new book, he reminds us that it is a bit of a surprise that the biblical Abraham came to be regarded as the founder of Judaism. “It is not simply that in Genesis, Abraham does not teach what Moses is said to have taught,” he writes, “it is that he does not teach anything at all.” Of course, this was eventually a problem not only for Jewish tradition but for Christianity and Islam as well, who also regarded themselves as heirs of the patriarch.

          And so each tradition produced its own evolving “usable Abraham,” complete with a full biography and theology (Abraham the idol smasher, monotheistic missionary, would-be martyr, and so on), often building upon and responding to one another, in midrashic literature, the New Testament, the Qur’an, and elsewhere.

          Levenson wisely does not ask which Abraham is the real one, nor does he attempt to uncover kernels of historical truth beneath the