does the preface go as followed:
"LINCOLN NEVER poured out his soul to any mortal creature at anytime and on no subject," his longtime law partner, William Herndon, once declared. "He was the most secretive--reticent--shut-mouthed man that ever existed." Judge David Davis, who had known Lincoln for many years from his practice on the judicial circuit and who served as a close adviser in Illinois politics, agreed. Using almost the same words, Davis confirmed that, "he was the most reticent--Secretive man I Ever Saw--or Expect to See." With considerable understatement, Lincoln himself conceded in 1861, "I am rather inclined to silence."