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“Talking to old women in the Texas Hill Country, I kept hearing, ‘We loved him because he brought the lights.’ I thought I knew what that meant. But I didn’t.”

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Throughout his adult life, Abraham Lincoln read and committed to memory the plays of William Shakespeare. As President, he saw all the great Shakespearian actors of the day on stage—James Hackett, Edwin Forrest, Edwin Booth, and even that great tragedian’s younger brother, future assassin John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln often rated their performances, transfixing visitors with recitations of the words as he believed they should be dramatized.

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“In that moment I knew that if I wanted to write about power, I would have to write about the powerless as well, would have to write not only about the man who wielded power, but about its effect—for good or ill—on those on whom it was wielded.”