Mister Lincoln

Herbert Mitgang, cultural correspondent for the New York Times, has written books in the fields of history, biography, liter­ature, and fiction. His two Lincoln biographies are Lincoln As They Saw Him and The Fiery Trail.

• Act I, The advocate -- Act II, The liberator.

“Inaddition to the beautiful language and the illuminating mo­ments on Lincoln’s melancholia, the one-man show sparkles with wry, sharp humor, which was one of Abe’s ways of beating depression, his main weakness.”—Charles Witbeck, Chicago Tribune