"Simply the easiest booklet that has been released in this nice president's humor and stories...Everyone drawn to Abraham Lincoln probably want to learn this."—William C. Harris, writer of Lincoln and the Border States

Abraham Lincoln has lengthy been well-known for his management, honesty, and eloquence. yet regardless of his somber recognition, the 16th president used to be fairly humorous. With an uncanny skill to imitate others and an impossible to resist midwestern twang, Lincoln, in reality, can be downright hilarious.

Brimming together with his funniest quips, jokes, and stories, Lincoln's Gift explores the an important function humor performed all through his tumultuous specialist and personal existence. ideal for background buffs and Lincoln lovers alike, this shrewdpermanent and pleasing biography finds how America's maximum president used his lighter aspect to guide the rustic via one among its darkest instances, the Civil War.

"Gordon Leidner ingeniously blends a research of Lincoln's humor with an account of his existence, displaying how our 16th president used to be now not constantly a 'man of sorrows' yet frequently a guy of laughter, able alike of having fun with in addition to telling a superb story."—Michael Burlingame, writer of Abraham Lincoln: A Life