Now an Apple TV+ documentary, Lincoln''s Dilemma.One of the Wall Street Journal''s Ten Best Books of the Year | A Washington Post Notable Book | A Christian Science Monitor and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Abraham Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award"A marvelous cultural biography that captures Lincoln in all his historical fullness. . . using popular culture in this way, to fill out the context surrounding Lincoln, is what makes Mr. Reynolds''s biography so different and so compelling . . . Where did the sympathy and compassion expressed in [Lincoln''s] Second Inaugural—''With malice toward none; with charity for all''—come from? This big, wonderful book provides the richest cultural context to explain that, and everything else, about Lincoln." —Gordon Wood, Wall Street JournalFrom one of the great historians of nineteenth-century America, a revelatory and enthralling new biography of Lincoln, many years in the making, that brings