Paperback choice.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.' Abraham Lincoln's judgement, on a book that was clearly not to his taste, is a superb backhanded compliment. It prompts the question of which readers will be interested by this autumn's crop of new history paperbacks. Which will appeal to a small coterie of devotees and which will have a more general appeal? And are there any which might be dismissed with Lincoln's brief barb?

It would be ironic if a life of the sixteenth US president were of interest only to those interested in the life of the ...

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