Lincoln Tops the List!

Today is President's Day celebrating one of the highest ranked Presidents in our nation's history. Abraham Lincoln was born 200 years ago on February 12th and, yesterday, CSPAN announced he ranked number one on their 2009 Historicans Presidential Leadership Survey . The first was released in 2000 and some of the rankings have changed. Check out the CSPAN website to see the rankings and the list of attributes the survey was based on.

To find out more about Abraham Lincoln and his Presidency, check out these books from our collection:

The Age of Lincoln
E415.7 .B87 2007

Team of Rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln
E457.45 .G66 2005

Lincoln Revisited : new insights from the Lincoln Forum
E457.8 .L747 2007

Lincoln's Virtues : an ethical biography
E457.2 .M643 2002

There are more books about Abraham Lincoln in the display cases in the library entrance. Come in and check them out!!