Harold Holzer has devoted much of his life to a guy who died more than 80 years before he was born. More specifically, he has spent much of his time fixating on this man’s face — his face in paintings, in photographs, sculpted out of plaster. But Mr. Holzer, a historian and former Democratic operative in New York, found Lincoln fascinating enough to write or edit 52 books about him, with two more in the works. In his office on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Mr. Holzer, 69, boasts 10 feet of shelving that exclusively holds Lincoln books bearing his name. And Mr. Holzer didn’t take a break from his Lincoln obsession on weekends.

Source: New York Times September 17, 2018 16:18 UTC