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Author : Benjamin Platt Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Portrait for Posterity written by Benjamin Platt Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Platt Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Portrait for Posterity: Lincoln and His Biographers written by Benjamin Platt Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Burkhimer
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781581823691
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (236 download)
Download or read book 100 Essential Lincoln Books written by Michael Burkhimer and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few politicians have fascinated the American people as much as Abraham Lincoln. The 1990s witnessed heightened interest in the sixteenth president and a flood of books about him that continues to the present. A recent tally indicates that at least 14,000 books and pamphlets have been written about him. The last guide to the best Lincoln books was produced in 1946. Since then several thousand more titles have been published. As a result, anyone interested in reading about him faces a daunting task in seeking out the books that offer the keenest insights into the man and the legend and lore that surround him. Michael Burkhimer's 100 Essential Lincoln Books offers a guide to this vast body of Lincoln literature. He chooses books that are indispensable for both book collectors and readers intent on learning more about Lincoln. The importance of each work is outlined with an emphasis on how it has contributed to Lincoln studies. Burkhimer's criteria for selection are based on the book's originality, sources, interpretations, writing style, and overall contribution. Titles are arranged chronologically in order of their first publication, ranging from 1866 (Francis B. Carpenter's Six Months at the While House with Abraham Lincoln) to 2002 (William Lee Miller's Lincoln's Virtues). The recent resurgence of interest in Lincoln is reflected in that almost one-third of the books described here have appeared since 1990. To further aid the curious Lincoln reader, each title is classified under a general heading, such as assassination, biography, family and genealogy, and reminiscences. Indexes of authors and headings are also included.
Author : Benjamin P. Thomas
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809328871
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Benjamin P. Thomas and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln.
Author : Daniel S. Burt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313017263
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Biography Book written by Daniel S. Burt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Marilyn to Mussolini, people captivate people. A&E's Biography, best-selling autobiographies, and biographical novels testify to the popularity of the genre. But where does one begin? Collected here are descriptions and evaluations of over 10,000 biographical works, including books of fact and fiction, biographies for young readers, and documentaries and movies, all based on the lives of over 500 historical figures from scientists and writers, to political and military leaders, to artists and musicians. Each entry includes a brief profile, autobiographical and primary sources, and recommended works. Short reviews describe the pertinent biographical works and offer insight into the qualities and special features of each title, helping readers to find the best biographical material available on hundreds of fascinating individuals.
Author : David Herbert Donald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439126283
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Lincoln written by David Herbert Donald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war. Donald goes beyond biography, illuminating the gradual development of Lincoln’s character, chronicling his tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared for the presidency to become a great moral leader. In the most troubled of times, here was a man who led the country out of slavery and preserved a shattered Union—in short, one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.
Author : Olivier Frayssé
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252019791
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Lincoln, Land, and Labor, 1809-60 written by Olivier Frayssé and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lincoln, Land, and Labor the French scholar Olivier Fraysse traces Lincoln's problematic relationship with and ideas about the land and those who worked it, revealing Lincoln as an intelligent and ambitious man who in fact turned his back on his rural roots for a time in favor of the opportunities offered in law and politics.
Author : Keith A. Erekson
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 1558499156
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Everybody's History written by Keith A. Erekson and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a group of nonprofessional historians forced a reassessment of Abraham Lincolns life story
Author : Lowell H. Harrison
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813129400
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Lincoln of Kentucky written by Lowell H. Harrison and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Abraham Lincoln and his family joined the migration over the Ohio River, but it was Kentucky—the state of his birth—that shaped his personality and continued to affect his life. His wife was from the commonwealth, as were each of the other women with whom he had romantic relationships. Henry Clay was his political idol; Joshua Speed of Farmington, near Louisville, was his lifelong best friend; and all three of his law partners were Kentuckians. During the Civil War, Lincoln is reputed to have said, "I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky." He recognized Kentucky's importance as the bellwether of the four loyal slave states and accepted the commonwealth's illegal neutrality until Unionists secured firm control of the state government. Lowell Harrison emphasizes the particular skill and delicacy with which Lincoln handled the problems of a loyal slave state populated by a large number of Confederate sympathizers. It was not until decades later that Kentuckians fully recognized Lincoln's greatness and paid homage to their native son.
Author : Richard N. Current
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809000598
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Lincoln Nobody Knows written by Richard N. Current and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1958 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abraham Lincoln as politician, president, and human being comes to life in all the conflicts, paradoxes, and seeming contradictions that surround him. Packed with fascinating details, The Lincoln Nobody Knows is a study of the obscure and misunderstood facets of the great statesman's career and private life."--Back cover
Author : Clifton J. Phillips
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0871950928
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Indiana in Transition, 1880-1920 written by Clifton J. Phillips and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 1968-12-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indiana in Transition: The Emergence of an Industrial Commonwealth, 1880–1920 (vol. 4, History of Indiana Series), author Clifton J. Phillips covers the period during which Indiana underwent political, economic, and social changes that furthered its evolution from a primarily rural-agricultural society to a predominantly urban-industrial commonwealth. The book includes a bibliography, notes, and index.
Author : Benjamin P. Thomas
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809386925
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Benjamin P. Thomas and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered a classic, Benjamin P. Thomas's Abraham Lincoln: A Biography takes an incisive look at one of American history's greatest figures. Originally published in 1952 to wide acclaim, this eloquent account rises above previously romanticized depictions of the sixteenth president to reveal the real Lincoln: a complex, shrewd, and dynamic individual whose exceptional life has long intrigued the public. Thomas traces the president from his hardscrabble beginnings and early political career, through his years as an Illinois lawyer and his presidency during the Civil War. Although Lincoln is appropriately placed against the backdrop of the dramatic times in which he lived, the author's true focus is on Lincoln the man and his intricate personality. While Thomas pays tribute to Lincoln's many virtues and accomplishments, he is careful not to dramatize a persona already larger than life in the American imagination. Instead he presents a candid and balanced representation that provides compelling insight into Lincoln's true character and the elements that forged him into an extraordinary leader. Thomas portrays Lincoln as a man whose conviction, resourcefulness, and inner strength enabled him to lead the nation through the most violent crossroads in its history. Thomas's direct, readable narrative is concise while losing none of the crucial details of Lincoln's remarkable life. The volume's clarity of style makes it accessible to beginners, but it is complex and nuanced enough to interest longtime Lincoln scholars. After more than half a century, Abraham Lincoln: A Biography is still an essential source for anyone interested in learning more about the many facets of the sixteenth president, and it remains the definitive single-volume work on the life of an American legend.
Author : Richard Lawrence Miller
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811701877
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Lincoln and His World written by Richard Lawrence Miller and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as an archeologist can reassemble pot shards and draw inferences about the civilization that produced it, I've examined a mass of verbal chunks left by Lincoln and people around him. I've sorted jumbled piles of fragments, restored them, and pieced them together in a way that reveals the speakers' world. --Richard Lawrence Miller, from the preface Quoting from eyewitness accounts, Richard Lawrence Miller allows Lincoln and his contemporaries to tell the story of this monumental American and bring a fascinating era of American history to life. The book covers Lincoln's birth through his first election to the Illinois legislature in 1834. Subsequent volumes will deal with Lincoln's life up to the White House years.
Author : Benjamin P. Thomas
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056388
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book "Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays written by Benjamin P. Thomas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers the best previously unpublished and uncollected writings on Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln scholarship by one of his great biographers, Benjamin P. Thomas. A skilled historian and a masterful storyteller himself, Thomas was widely regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. With these essays, he combines historical depth with narrative grace in delineating Lincoln's qualities as a humorist, lawyer, and politician. From colorful tall tales to clever barbs aimed at political opponents, Lincoln clothed a shrewd wit in a homespun, backwoods vernacular. He used humor to defuse tension, illuminate a point, put others at ease--and sometimes for sheer fun. From an early reliance on broad humor and ridicule in speeches and on the stump, Lincoln's style shifted in 1854 to a more serious vein in which humor came primarily to elucidate an argument. "If I did not laugh occasionally I should die," he is said to have told his cabinet, "and you need this medicine as much as I do." Thomas brings his deep knowledge of Lincoln to essays on the great man's tumultuous career in Congress, his work as a lawyer, his experiences in the Courts, and his opinions of the South. A gracious survey of Lincoln's early biographers, particularly Ida Tarbell, stands alongside an appreciation of Harry Edward Pratt, a key figure in the early days of the Abraham Lincoln Association. Thomas also assesses Lincoln's use of language and the ongoing significance of the Gettysburg Address. This diverse collection is enhanced by an introduction by Michael Burlingame, himself a leading biographer of Lincoln. Burlingame provides a balanced portrait of Thomas and his circuitous path toward writing history.
Author : G. S. Boritt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252064456
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream written by G. S. Boritt and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique exploration of Lincoln's economic beliefs shows how they helped shape his view of slavery, his conduct of the war, and most fundamentally his understanding of what the United States was and could become.
Author : William Nester
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612346596
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power, 1848-1876 written by William Nester and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Abraham Lincoln was among seven presidents who served during the tumultuous years between the end of the Mexican War and the end of the Reconstruction era, history has not been kind to the others: Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant. In contrast, history sees Abraham Lincoln as a giant in character and deeds. During his presidency, he governed brilliantly, developed the economy, liberated four million people from slavery, reunified the nation, and helped enact the Homestead Act, among other accomplishments. He proved to be not only an outstanding commander in chief but also a skilled diplomat, economist, humanist, educator, and moralist. Lincoln achieved that and more because he was a master of the art of American power. He understood that the struggle for hearts and minds was the essence of politics in a democracy. He asserted power mostly by appealing to peopleÆs hopes rather than their fears. All along he tried to shape rather than reflect prevailing public opinions that differed from his own. To that end, he was brilliant at bridging the gap between progressives and conservatives by reining in the former and urging on the latter. His art of power ultimately reflected his unswerving devotion to the Declaration of IndependenceÆs principles and the ConstitutionÆs institutions, or as he so elegantly expressed it, ôto a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.ö
Author : Richard Carwardine
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 019537911X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Global Lincoln written by Richard Carwardine and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other American historical figure, Abraham Lincoln towers over the global landscape, a leader who spoke - and continues to speak - to people around the world. This book tells the unknown and remarkable story of this great president's worldwide legacy, exploring the image and influence of Lincoln in places ranging from Germany to Japan, India to Ireland, Africa and Argentina to the American South.
