Thomas swann woodcock biography of abraham lincoln

&#;Abraham Lincoln&#; is Benjamin Thomas&#;s classic and may have been the best single volume biography until Stephen Oates&#;s &#;With Malice Toward None&#; was published in Thomas&#;s biography was the first comprehensive one volume analysis of Lincoln&#;s life since Lord Charnwood&#;s biography of Lincoln.

Woodcock, Thomas Swann, ,, engraver.

Thomas Swann Woodcock () was an English-born steel engraver who was Abraham Lincoln.

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Thomas was a history professor and executive secretary of the Abraham Lincoln Association in Springfield. The author of a half-dozen other books, Thomas took his own life in after receiving a cancer diagnosis.

Oldest of the five Lincoln biographies I&#;ve read so far, Thomas&#;s &#;Abraham Lincoln&#; has aged well.

At just over five-hundred pages in length, this is not a brief read but it proves to be an enjoyable and almost effortless experience. Happily, this biography lacks page-long paragraphs of dense, academic text and yet still creates an impression of intellectual rigor.

Thomas seems to approach his task more as