The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President

Ward Hill Lamon was a personal friend and self-appointed bodyguard of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. After Lincoln’s death, Lamon published two books (one posthumously) about the late President. The more famous of the two is a biography that was largely ghostwritten by Chauncey Black, the son of former Attorney General of the United States Jeremiah Black.