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At the time of his death on February 20, 1953, J. G. Randall stood out as the leading authority on the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. He has established his reputation with Constitutional Problems under Lincoln (1926; revised edition, 1951), The Civil War and Reconstruction (1937), and the first three volumes of a projected four volume study Lincoln the President (1945, 1952). Though Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure bears the marks of its time, it may still have much to offer the reader interested in Lincoln and the Civil War period.

"A profound study to be read with pleasure and referred to later for unimpeachable facts. Here is the last word on Lincoln's life and problems during his most crucial year." -- Jay Monaghan, New York Times "A lifelong familiarity with the sources for the period and an instinctive feeling for some of the permanent features of the American political scene enable Professor Randall to illumine with a rare vividness the issues as they presented themselves in all their hurried complexity to Lincoln and his contemporaries." -- Manchester Guardian "No previous biographer of Lincoln has equalled Professor Randall... indubitably the last word is his." -- New Statesman