Return of fun with footnotes

In addition to making claims to be backed up by footnotes, and yet leaving those footnotes blank, or having text in them that doesn't back up your claim, you can also claim that the citations clearly present in a book don't exist at all!

[Washington Post op-ed writer Andrew] Ferguson points to a quote regarding the dangers of concentrated wealth that Al Gore attributes to Abraham Lincoln in his new book:

You can't really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, "The Assault on Reason." It's a sprawling, untidy blast of indignation, and annotating it with footnotes would be like trying to slip rubber bands around a puddle of quicksilver. Still, I'd love to know where he found the scary quote from Abraham Lincoln that he uses on page 88.

Well, Andrew, I have Gore's book sitting right in front of me, and guess what: it has 273 footnotes (I guess technically endnotes) that span some 20 pages at the end of the book. In fact, the Lincoln quote on page 88 has its very own endnote, which reads:

Abraham Lincoln, "Letter to Col. William F. Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864," The Lincoln Encyclopedia, ed. Archer H. Shaw (New York: MacMillan, 1950), p. 40.