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biography. It is widely considered to be the first published biography of
Lincoln. While it was published by the Lincoln campaign and Lincoln himself contributed, it was not an authorized biography. When Scripps finished writing, he had too little time before publication to submit the book to Lincoln himself for fact checking. In fact, in a list of books that Lincoln read as a child, Scripps added
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