This is the book that started the myth that Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg address on the train to Gettysburg. Total fiction. It also creates out of whole cloth a story about Lincoln visiting a dying confederate soldier. Touching, but total fiction. Another librarything user has tagged this book as 'Lincoln crap'. That pretty much sums it up. Can't believe that they actually made a movie about this. Read it as an historical literary curiosity, but not as historical fact. ( )

This saccharine hagiography exhibits the profound awe that Lincoln sometimes commanded after his assassination. ( )