Few Americans have captured our attention as much as Abraham Lincoln. More books have been written about him than any other American, and many of them are at a small bookshop in the River North neighborhood of Chicago. In this segment for Backstory, Larry Potash meets a Lincoln expert whom some might call ‘obsessed’ with our 16th President, and explores the numerous Lincoln artifacts in his possession.

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