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5 tributes to Abraham Lincoln from literary greats

Here, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln, are comments from five literary greats found in “The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now,” published by The Library of America.

4. Sir Winston Churchill, writing about Abraham Lincoln

  • By Danny Heitman

“Others might try to emulate his magnanimity; none but he could control the bitter political hatreds which were rife. The assassin’s bullet had wrought more evil to the United States than all the Confederate cannonade.... the death of Lincoln deprived the Union of the guiding hand which alone could have solved the problems of reconstruction and added to the triumph of armies those lasting victories which were gained over the hearts of men.”

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