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Land of Lincoln
By Andrew Ferguson
Atlantic, 274 pages, $24
For those lacking inspiration to wander through the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield this summer, pick up this amusing book and let Andrew Ferguson guide you through the crazy world inhabited by Lincoln impersonators, collectors of trinkets and bric-a-brac, and garden variety history buffs. The central question animating Ferguson’s book is a simple one: How did Lincoln, perhaps more than any other historical figure, exert such a great hold on the American imagination? This query may defy answer, but it is worth pondering.
