Chicago Bookstore Mecca for Lincoln Fans

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CHICAGO About a decade ago, as she was starting to research Abraham Lincoln, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin stepped into a small bookshop she'd heard about here devoted to the nation's 16th president.

She expected a dusty little store, but what she found was practically a museum, filled with books, documents, photographs and other historical gems that for decades have been making collectors, history buffs and the nation's leading historians fans of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop.

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Chicago Bookstore Mecca for Lincoln Fans

Goodwin made several pilgrimages to the bookstore during which she bought several dozen books that helped her write her best- selling "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraha...

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