Authors:Harold Holzer, Dawn Vogel, John Simon,
Publisher: Copublished with the Lincoln Forum
Keywords: lincoln, forum, books, new, revisited, insights
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-04-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0823227367
ISBN-13: 9780823227365
In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet’s politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year historians find something new and important to say about the greatest of our Presidents. Lincoln Revisited is a masterly guidebook to what’s new and what’s noteworthy in this unfolding story--a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historian
Author: M. Kay duPont
Publisher: Jedco Press
Keywords: lincoln, todd, mary, personal, loving, diaries
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2003-04-07
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0961492759
ISBN-13: 9780961492755
WINNER OF THE 2003 GEORGIA WRITERS ASSOCIATION FICTION AWARD! Meet the Lincoln family as you’ve never seen them--up close and personal. They will captivate your attention and your heart! Based on meticulous research, so that every historical fact is accurate, M. Kay duPont beautifully unveils one of the strongest, yet most tragic, relationships in history with depth, clarity, and detail. . Loving Mr. Lincoln--presented in Mary Lincoln’s "own words"—chronicles her life, love, and daily struggles with Abraham in their 26 years together. In frank, haunting journal entries, Mary descri
Author: William H. Townsend
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Keywords: lincoln, lawsuit, interesting, defendant, abraham
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2008-04-03
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 158477830X
ISBN-13: 9781584778301
Townsend, William H.Abraham Lincoln, Defendant: Lincoln’s Most Interesting Lawsuit. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. vii, [1] p., 2 l., 3-40, [1] p. front., facsims. Reprinted 2008 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-830-1. ISBN-10: 1-58477-830-X. Cloth. $65.* Reprint of the sole edition. The facsimiles here given are taken from the records of the Fayette Circuit Court and from letters of Abraham Lincoln. A petition was filed in the Fayette Circuit Court, Lexington, Ky., May, 1853, by Edward Oldham and Thomas Hemingway, surviving partners of Oldham, Todd &
Authors:Mary Johnson Lincoln, Mrs D Lincoln", Mrs. D. Lincol
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: america, cooking, serving, carving
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 2008-01-07
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1429012552
ISBN-13: 9781429012553
Authors:Abraham Lincoln, Don E. Fehrenbacher,
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: america, library, writings, speeches, lincoln
Number of Pages: 898
Published: 1989-10-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0940450437
ISBN-13: 9780940450431
With over 100,000 copies in print, here, with a new jacket for Lincoln’s bicentennial, is the first volume in The Library of America’s acclaimed, comprehensive edition of Lincoln’s writings, featuring 240 speeches, letters, and drafts charting his rise from rural law practice to national prominence. It includes the full texts of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates and the House Divided speech, as well as a detailed chronology of Lincoln’s life and helpful explanatory notes prepared by the late Lincoln scholar Don E. Fehrenbacher. ??The companion volume, also available in a bicentennial
Author: Lincoln Historical Society
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, lincoln
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-10-20
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738511463
ISBN-13: 9780738511467
Lincoln was founded in 1754, when colonists in Concord and parts of Lexington and Weston joined together to form a new town. Judge Chambers Russell, Concord’s representative to the General Court, christened the town Lincoln after his beloved family home of Lincolnshire, England. Shown in this pictorial of more than two hundred never-before-published photographs culled from historic archives and family collections, Lincoln evolves from its early days as a thriving agricultural community, through gentrification into country estates owned by wealthy Bostonians, to its present status as a pi
Author: Garry Wills
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: lincoln, amp, schuster, library, simon, america, gettysburg, words, remade
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-11-14
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0743299639
ISBN-13: 9780743299633
The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece.By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows
