. . . "On the eve of Lincoln???s birthday earlier this week, guests including Tony Bennett, Lewis Lapham and editors of the Paris Review, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair gathered at the St. Regis Hotel to toast a new, limited edition book by Harold Holzer, ???Abraham Lincoln: Defender of Freedom.??? (Holzer also was an advisor on the Steven Spielberg movie.) At the bash, Timothy Don read The Gettysburg Ad" . .