First printing. A biography of the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln by the University of Kansas professor and Civil War authority Phillip Shaw Paludan. Per the jacket flap, the author ". . .offers us Lincoln in whole--a complex, even contradictory personality who found greatness without seeking it. . ." With extensive end notes, bibliographical essay and index. This work was awarded the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize by Gettysburg College in 1995. --- In blue and black paper-covered boards with silver-stamped spine titling. Volume wrapped in dust jacket with unflattering Hamilton Ostendorf photographic portrait of Lincoln to front panel. --- An excellent copy: bright, tightly-bound and unmarked. Jacket with faint soiling to back panel, else in good shape and protected in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall ; xx, 384 pages