By DAVID HERBERT
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There's a Lincoln biography under President-elect Barack Obama's arm, and it's not the one you think.
On Saturday night, the president-elect was photographed carrying Fred Kaplan's Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer as he left the Chicago home of friend and booster Penny Pritzker. The book traces Abraham Lincoln's self-education, from his love of the Bible and Shakespeare to his development as a writer and avid reader.
Kaplan, who said he supported Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy but was quickly won over by Obama when he became the nominee, was "thrilled" when he saw photographs of his book tucked under the president-elect's arm. He noted that for all the Obama-Lincoln comparisons, their educations couldn't have been more different: Honest Abe was almost entirely self-educated, while Obama attended the nation's best schools, from the Punahou School in Hawaii to Columbia University to Harvard Law. But that's not the end of the story, Kaplan added.
