The university of pennsylvania, and is the author of six books including popular print and popular medicine, Health Advice in early american almanacs, then the living live con. President James Buchanan and the crisis of national leadership. Lincoln Campaign Biographies is his most recent book, and his currently editing a book called annotated lincoln. Let me present tom horrocks. Hello, everyone, can you hear me . Im going to be showing some slides of several campaigns of lincolns biographies of the 1860s. I need to talk a little bit about the 60 Campaign Biographies to put the 1864 Campaign Biographies into context. Theres two points that i want to make at the outset. One is the close relationship between the world of politics, many newspapers were aligned with the Political Party, newspapers and their editors were openly partisan, this is a trefbtd that began in the 1920s, when newspapers became the favorite prichblt media. Newspapers were part of an extensive and powerful Publishing