Biography in Pictures

LINCOLN: His LIFE IN PICTURES--Stefan Lorant--Due//, Sloan & Pearce ($3).

The best sequence of Lincoln photographs ever issued in book form has been edited by a Hungarian-born emigre journalist, Stefan Lorant. The book includes more than 100 photographs of Lincoln, many of them never before published; some 300 photographs of Lincoln's associates, advisers, generals, friends and enemies. One remarkable sequence is a photographic record of Lincoln's transformation from a rather smug frontier lawyer (Picture No. 1) to the brooding savior of the Union (Picture No. 2 taken on a broken plate five days before he was shot). Before Editor Lorant nobody had ever thought to put this sequence together, in part, he believes, because many of the original photographs were so small. Lorant had them enlarged, saw that they were Lincoln's biography in pictures.

Also included in the book: a brief biographical sketch of Lincoln by Editor Lorant; important documents (among them the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation) in Lincoln's handwriting; the photographic record of the assassination.

Stefan Lorant is also author of the best-selling I Was Hitler's Prisoner, which British Editor Wickham Steed said would outlast the Third Reich. After the Hungarian Government got him out of a Nazi concentration camp, Lorant started Picture Post in London, ran up its circulation to 1,500,000 in a few weeks. With his first U.S. citizenship papers in his pocket, Lorant is working on a pictorial history of the U.S., of which Lincoln will be a part.

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