Author: Harold Holzer
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: lincoln, simon, schuster, library, president, made, cooper, union, speech, abraham
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-11-07
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743299647
ISBN-13: 9780743299640
Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln’s most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled doubts about Lincoln’s suitability for the presidency and reassured conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his opposition to slavery to Republican progressives.Award-winning Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer places Lincoln and his speech in the context of the t
Authors:Harold Holzer, Dawn Vogel, John Y. Simon,
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: lincoln, forum, books, new, revisited, insights
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-05-31
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 guidePub to what’s new and what’s noteworthy in this unfolding story-a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time. Broug
Author: Thomas DiLorenzo
Publisher: Three Rivers Pre
Keywords: lincoln, unnecessary, war, agenda, abraham, new, real
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-12-02
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0761526463
ISBN-13: 9780761526469
A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary WarMost Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in american history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Bri
Author: Tom Wheeler
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: lincoln, civil, war, win, used, mails, abraham, telegraph
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-02-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0061129801
ISBN-13: 9780061129803
Abraham Lincoln’s two great legacies to historyhis extraordinary power as a writer and his leadership during the Civil Warcome together in this close study of the President’s use of the telegraph. Invented less than two decades before he entered office, the telegraph came into its own during the Civil War. In a jewel?box of historical writing, Wheeler captures Lincoln as he adapted his folksy rhetorical style to the telegraph, creating an intimate bond with his generals that would ultimately help win the war.
Author: Gerald J. Prokopowicz
Publisher: Pantheo
Keywords: lincoln, questions, abraham, asked, frequently, own, slaves
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-01-22
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0375425411
ISBN-13: 9780375425417
Over the course of nine years as scholar-in-residence at the Lincoln Museum, Gerald J. Prokopowicz answered thousands of questions about Abraham Lincoln. Reporters, researchers, students, and especially the 50,000 visitors who come to the museum every year all want to know about the nation’s most famous president. Although there have been more books written about Lincoln than any other American, there has never been a single book that clearly answers the most important, most unusual, most provocative, and most frequently asked questions. Until now.Did Lincoln Own Slaves? And Other Freque
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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 Lincolns bicentennial, is the first volume in The Library of Americas acclaimed, comprehensive edition of Lincolns 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 Lincolns life and helpful explanatory notes prepared by the late Lincoln scholar Don E. Fehrenbacher. ??The companion volume, also available in a bicentennial edition
Author: Gregory A. Borchard
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: lincoln, library, concise, horace, abraham, greeley
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2011-08-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0809330458
ISBN-13: 9780809330454
On the American stages of politics and journalism in the mid-nineteenth century, few men were more influential than Abraham Lincoln and his sometime adversary, sometime ally, New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley. In this compelling new volume, author Gregory A. Borchard explores the intricate relationship between these two vibrant figures, both titans of the press during one of the most tumultuous political eras in American history. Packed with insightful analysis and painstaking research, Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley offers a fresh perspective on these luminaries and their legacies.Bo
