books.google.com - Widely considered in his own time as a genial but provincial lightweight who was out of place in the presidency, Abraham Lincoln astonished his allies and confounded his adversaries by producing a series of speeches and public letters so provocative that they helped revolutionize public opinion on such...http://books.google.com/books/about/Lincoln_s_Sword.html?id=5u25mVscD5MC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLincoln's Sword