A. Lincoln

I'm about half way through reading Ronald C. White Jr.'s new book , A. Lincoln: A Biography. I never get tired of the Lincoln story. As Doris Kearns Goodwin pointed out in podcast I listened to the other day about her book Team of Rivals, Lincoln dealt with tragedy from an early age; his mother died when he was a young boy, then one of his sisters and as a father he lost 2 children. He never joined a particular church and wasn't so sure about the afterlife so his ambition sprang from his hope that when he died he would live on through the memory of how he made the world a better place. And he really meant it unlike modern day politicians, although no doubt the ramifications of his acts rippled through the years to the election of the first African-American president. It's really hard to believe that a man such as Lincoln once existed who was both so humble and so great.