Happy #NationalBookLoversDay!
Abraham Lincoln's stepmother recalled, "Abe read all the books he could lay his hands on." As a young man, he absorbed information by constant repetition, drilling words, facts, and even lengthy book passages into his head over and over by writing them down either in copy books or on boards. Reading helped liberate Lincoln from his hardscrabble, frontier environment.
Want to know what Lincoln read? Here's a list of every book or parts of books that has been attributed to Lincoln (Courtesy of the Journal of Abraham Lincoln Association).
