In his book, Lincoln Reconsidered, Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer David Donald remarked that, after Lincoln’s death and “reincarnation” as a secular political saint, politicians of all stripes began attaching themselves to his legacy. Men who were his bitterest political enemies during his lifetime all of a sudden claimed to have been his closest friends and associates. …In his book, Lincoln Reconsidered, Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer David Donald remarked that, after Lincoln’s death and “reincarnation” as a secular political saint, politicians of all stripes began attaching themselves to his legacy. Men who were his bitterest political enemies during his lifetime all of a sudden claimed to have been his closest friends and associates. …