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Did Lincoln Own Slaves?
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 14.95In the bicentennial year of Lincoln's birth, here is the one indispensable book that provides all you need to know about our most revered president in a lively and memorable question-and-answer format.You will learn whether Lincoln could dunk a basketball or tell a joke. Was he the great emancipator or a racist? If he were alive today, could he get... more...
President Lincoln
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.95In his acclaimed book Lincoln's Virtues , William Lee Miller explored Abraham Lincoln's intellectual and moral development. Now he completes his "ethical biography," showing how the amiable and inexperienced backcountry politician was transformed by constitutional alchemy into an oath-bound head of state. Faced with a radical moral contradiction left... more...
The Long Pursuit
HarperCollins 2008; US$ 18.99In this compelling narrative, renowned historian Roy Morris, Jr., expertly offers a new angle on two of America's most towering politicians and the intense personal rivalry that transformed both them and the nation they sought to lead in the dark days leading up to the Civil War. For the better part of two decades, Stephen Douglas was the most... more...
We Are Lincoln Men
Simon & Schuster 2003; US$ 14.00In this brilliant and illuminating portrait of our sixteenth president, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald examines the significance of friendship in Abraham Lincoln's life and the role it played in shaping his career and his presidency. Though Lincoln had hundreds of acquaintances and dozens of admirers, he had almost no intimate... more...
The Lincolns
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00The first full-length portrait of the marriage of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln in more than fifty years, The Lincolns is a fascinating new work of American history by Daniel Mark Epstein, an award-winning biographer and poet known for his passionate understanding of the Civil War period. Although the private lives of political couples have in our... more...
A. Lincoln
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 20.00?If you read one book about Lincoln, make it A. Lincoln .?? USA Today NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post ? The Philadelphia Inquirer ? The Christian Science Monitor ? St. Louis Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD Everyone wants to define the man who signed his name... more...
Angels and Ages
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man?s place in the world. Here Gopnik reveals these two men as they really were: family... more...
Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 18.00By the 1920s, Abraham Lincoln had transcended the lingering controversies of the Civil War to become a secular saint, honored in North and South alike for his steadfast leadership in crisis. Throughout the Great Depression and World War II, Lincoln was invoked countless times as a reminder of America’s strength and wisdom, a commanding ideal... more...
With Malice Toward None
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 14.99?Full, fair, and accurate. . . . Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written.? ?Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book Review From preeminent Civil War historian Stephen B. Oates comes the book the Washington Post hails as ?the standard one-volume biography of Lincoln.? Oates? With Malice Toward None... more...









