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Two men, John Hay and John Nicolay, can claim much of the credit for the popular image of Abraham Lincoln as the noble leader and shrewd political operator that's embraced by most Americans today.

In the years after Lincoln's assassination, American perception of the Civil War was viewed through an increasingly popular frame of sectional reunion.

Journals fed the narrative that the bloody war was an ugly brothers' spat and papered over the role slavery played in the conflict.

Early biographers, informed by Lincoln's former Springfield law partner William Herndon, wrote first takes of the president that would be unrecognizable to the heroic image that Americans know today from books like Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals and Daniel Day-Lewis' Oscar-winning performance.

And the public made Josiah Holland's Life of Lincoln, which erroneously portrayed the president who was gunned down on Good Friday as "an eminently Christi