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Lincoln, Inc.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 23.99Lincoln, Inc. is an engaging examination of the uses and abuses of the sixteenth president's image in America today. Whether in political campaigns, blockbuster films, school pageants, or soft drink advertisements, the use of the Lincoln image reveals who we think we are as a nation, and who we wish we could be. more...
Abraham Lincoln, Esq.
The University Press of Kentucky 2010; US$ 40.00As our nation's most beloved and recognizable president, Abraham Lincoln is best known for the Emancipation Proclamation and for guiding our country through the Civil War. But before he took the oath of office, Lincoln practiced law for nearly twenty-five years in the Illinois courts. Abraham Lincoln, Esq.: The Legal Career of America's Greatest President... more...
Lincoln's Greatest Speech
Simon & Schuster 2002; Not AvailableAfter four years of unspeakable horror and sacrifice on both sides, the Civil War was about to end. On March 4, 1865, at his Second Inaugural, President Lincoln did not offer the North the victory speech it yearned for, nor did he blame the South solely for the sin of slavery. Calling the whole nation to account, Lincoln offered a moral framework... more...
Why the Civil War Came
Oxford University Press, USA 1996; US$ 19.99In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four horrific years and claim a staggering number of lives. Since that fateful day, the debate over the causes of the American Civil War has never ceased. What events were instrumental in bringing it about? How did... more...
Lincoln's American Dream
Potomac Books Inc. 2005; US$ 29.95Provides a unique and invaluable resource for further understanding Lincoln's political thought and leadership and the Civil War. more...
Lincoln and His World, Volume 4
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 45.00In the climax of Richard Lawrence Miller's epic four-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln's pre-presidential years, a blunder by the proponents of slavery propels Lincoln toward the White House. Initially, passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act seems to be a victory for the South, opening the American West to slavery. Ultimately, however, the North... more...
Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865
Penguin Group US 2001; US$ 23.00In this comprehensive account of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, William K. Klingaman takes a fresh look at what is arguably the most controversial reform in American history. Taking the reader from Lincoln's inauguration through the Civil War to his tragic assassination, it uncovers the complex political and psychological pressures... more...
Secession Debated
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 18.99The critical northern antebellum debate matched the rhetorical skills of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in an historic argument over the future of slavery in a westward-expanding America. Two years later, an equally historic oratorical showdown between secessionists and Unionists in Georgia generated as much popular interest south of the Mason-Dixon... more...
Lincoln's Sanctuary
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 16.99For much of his presidency, Abraham Lincoln lived in a cottage outside Washington on the grounds of the Soldier's Home, a retirement quarters for Army veterans - a place where he could escape the war. Based on fresh research and insightful thinking, this book offers a new and intimate look at this chapter of Lincoln's life. more...
Forge of Empires
Free Press 2007; US$ 28.99In the space of a single decade, three leaders liberated tens of millions of souls, remade their own vast countries, and altered forever the forms of national power: Abraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race and transformed the American Republic. Tsar Alexander II broke the chains of the serfs and brought the rule of law to Russia. Otto von... more...









