Smithsonian Spotlight: Lincoln's Men There have been nearly
15,000 books written about Abraham Lincoln, and still more are
rolling through the printing presses. He is perhaps the most
covered and yet most enigmatic figure in American history. Gain
all new insights from the three men who had unprecedented access
to our nation's sixteenth President: his personal secretaries.
Lincoln and the Camera Abraham Lincoln's rise to public life
coincided with the invention of photography and he used that to
his political advantage.