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I am pleased to have so many Lincoln enthusiasts who want to read along with me about Abraham Lincoln. We will be reading excerpts of essays, speeches, poems, plays, fiction and nonfiction about Abraham Lincoln, his life, his achievements, and his legacy. We are part of the Alvin Sherman Library's 2009 Summer Adult Reading Program, Master the Art of Reading.


This program is presented with the support of the LINCOLN IN AMERICAN MEMORY Project, a nationwide initiative to mark the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln presented by The Library of America and made possible with the generous assistance of the National Endowment for the Humanities “We The People” Campaign.

The Library of America has provided five readers on the life and writings of Abraham Lincoln.

This week we will be meeting to discuss the first reader in the Lincoln in American Memory project: Lincoln as Literary Genius. Our discussion group will meet Thursday, June 11 at 2 pm n room 2046 in the Alvin Sherman Library

Lincoln as Literary Genius includes excerpts by Harriett Beecher Stowe, William Herndon, Jacques Barzun, Marianne Moore, Edmund Wilson and John Dos Passos. Two of these contributors actually knew or had met Lincoln. Do you know which ones? Our reader tells us!