1. A small-town lawyer from Illinois, tall and lanky with an Adam's apple that
could have gone down in the Guinness Book of Records had it existed in the
nineteenth century. Nevertheless, he changed the face of American history,
steering it through a civil war that left both sides bloody. Who knows what more
he could have done had an assassin's bullet not cut him down.
-The person described is
In drawing the correct inference, which piece of information is more useful:
(a)He had a big Adam's apple.)
(b)He steered the nation through a civil war.)