Topics include Lincoln's impact on Rutherford Hayes, FDR, and Gerald Ford; Lincoln's relations with the Supreme Court; his assumption of extraordinary powers; his quarrelsome yet capable cabinet; and the premonitions that haunted him until his death.

Some of the topics include: a fascinating examination of Lincolns quarrelsome yet capable cabinet; a trio of insightful essays on his impact on successors Rutherford Hayes, FDR, and Gerald Ford; two sharply contrasting opinions regarding Lincolns contentious relations with the Supreme Court and his assumption and exercise of extraordinary (if not unconstitutional) powers; and an engrossing discussion of the visions, dreams and premonitions that haunted Lincoln until his death by an assassins bullet. Just as Lincoln himself was a benchmark for presidential successors, Abraham Lincoln: Contemporary, will be the benchmark against which future collections of essays will be measured.