"Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories

He told a joke the way other men reached for a drink. Lincoln's stories were armour, argument and stalling tactic all at once, deployed on cabinet officers, generals and office seekers who wanted something he had no intention of giving them. Wordsworth gathers the tall tales, the courtroom jabs and the flat prairie wit of a president who ran a civil war with an anecdote always loaded.