For the first time ever the thoughts and political decisions of Abraham Lincoln's most important days are captured in this startlingly innovative format. Stephen A. Wynalda chronologically provides new and little-known facts for every day of the year, such as how, before his assassination, Lincoln saw John Wilkes Booth perform in "The Marble Heart," during which Booth aimed threats directly at Lincoln. Wynalda describes how Booth's older brother Edwin saved Lincoln's son Robert when he fell from a train platform in Jersey City in 1863, and how, during the desperate summer of 1864 when it looked like he might not be reelected, Lincoln actually considered offering the confederates peace without demanding that they emancipate their slaves.