About fifty pages in this looked like it would be a solid addition to the series. Then it seemed like the author lost the thread. At least I felt like I was losing my sense of who Lincoln was and what he stood for. I know that there is only so much one can put in a book of this size, but I was disappointed that barely a word was said on foreign policy. There were also several Lincoln quotes that were not footnoted, which I found particularly annoying because there was one that I really wanted to know the source for. Thank goodness for Google!