As NPR’s Morning Edition reported this past Monday, President’s Day, the second-most written about man in history, behind Jesus Christ, is Abraham Lincoln, and to illustrate the mountain of books about Lincoln, the recently opened Ford’s Theatre Center for Education and Leadership in Washington, D.C., has made that mountain into a column — a spiraling column of Lincoln-related “books” made out of aluminum but with jackets from the real books printed on them. The stack climbs 34 feet and measures eight feet around.
Morning Edition quoted Paul Tetreault, director of Ford’s Theatre:
“There are books here for people of all ages. There’s young people’s books, there’s an Abraham Lincoln stickers book, there’s an Abraham Lincoln coloring book. And then of course there’s all of the bestsellers: David Herbert Donald’s great book about Lincoln [Lincoln], Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals — all of these major scholars who’ve written about Abraham Lincoln, they’re all contained in this stack.”
All?
