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Abraham Lincoln's Canonical Legacy

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“Abraham Lincoln is placed the second only to Jesus and Napoleon as an obsession of the world’s book writers.” (Ferguson). Ferguson’s words broadcasts the temptation that writing about Abraham Lincoln imposes. The attempt to do this research about Abraham Lincoln’s canonical legacy has opened the doors ahead of us, to a large collection of works, which are located in the same context of dealing with of American theology, the concept of unity in America, the representation of Abraham Lincoln in the American history as a political icon. Lincoln by David Herbert Donald is an outstanding work that portrayed and discussed the life of Abraham Lincoln As well as his presidency. The work brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s journey to presidency

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