The onset of commemoration of the birth of Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 12, 1809, has generated an outpouring of books about the life of the nation’s 16th president. The following titles were reviewed recently in the Chicago Sun-Times.

“President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman” by William Lee Miler (Knopf).

“The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder and the Making of a Great President” by Julie M. Fenster (Palgrave MacMillan).

“House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War” by Stephen Berry (Houghton Mifflin).

“Did Lincoln Own Slaves?” by Gerald J. Prokowicz (Pantheon).

“Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President” by Edwards Steers Jr. (University Press of Kentucky).

“The Madness of Mary Lincoln” by Jason Emerson (Southern Illinois Press).

Brief mention was made by the Sun-Times of four other recent works.

“Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America” by Allen C. Guelzo (Simon & Schuster).

“Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union” by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick (Walker).

“Lincoln and the Court” by Brian McGinty (Harvard University Press).

“One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln’s Road to Civil War” by John C. Waugh (Harcourt).