President James Buchanan and crisis of national leadership, Lincoln Campaign biographies is his most recent book and he is currently editing a book with Harold Holtzer entitled the an no tated lincoln. Let me present tom horrocks. Hello, everyone. Can you hear me . Im going to be showing some slides early on of several lincolns calm ina biographies from 1860s. Dont get upset. I do understand im talking about 1864 but i need to show talk a little bit about the 60 Campaign Biographies to put the 1864 Campaign Biographies into conte context. Theres two points i want to make at the outset. One is the close relationship between the world of prim and politics by mid 19th century, many newspapers and their editors were aligned with a Political Party. Newspapers and their editors were openly partisan. This is a trend that began in the 1820s when newspapers became the favorite print medium for political news. Newspapers were part of an extensive and powerful Publishing Industry that emerged in