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The Civil War in 50 Objects
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 19.99The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects : A fresh, visual perspective on the Civil War From a soldier?s diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown?s pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, a Confederate Palmetto flag, and the leaves from Abraham Lincoln?s bier, here is a unique and surprisingly intimate look at the... more...
Lincoln at Cooper Union
Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 15.00Lincoln 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... more...
Lincoln President-Elect
Simon & Schuster 2008; US$ 16.00One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency -- there would be no compromise on slavery or secession of the slaveholding states, even at... more...
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Fordham University Press 2004; US$ 21.99The seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held during the Illinois senatorial race of 1858 are among the most important statements in American political history, dramatic struggles over the issues that would tear apart the nation in the Civil War: the virtues of a republic and the evils of slavery. In this acclaimed book, Holzer... more...
Lincoln on War
Algonquin Books 2011; US$ 24.95President Lincoln used his own weapons?his words? to fight the Civil War as brilliantly as any general who ever took the field. In Lincoln on War , historian Harold Holzer gathers and interprets Lincoln?s speeches, letters, memoranda, orders, telegrams, and casual remarks, organizing them chronologically and allowing readers to experience Lincoln?s... more...
Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America
HarperCollins 2012; US$ 12.99A new book?and companion to the Steven Spielberg film?tracing how Abraham Lincoln came to view slavery . . . and came to end it. Steven Spielberg focused his movie Lincoln on the sixteenth president's tumultuous final months in office, when he pursued a course of action to end the Civil War, reunite the country, and abolish slavery. Invited by the... more...
Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America
HarperCollins 2012; Not AvailableA new book?and companion to the Steven Spielberg film?tracing how Abraham Lincoln came to view slavery . . . and came to end it. Steven Spielberg focused his movie Lincoln on the sixteenth president's tumultuous final months in office, when he pursued a course of action to end the Civil War, reunite the country, and abolish slavery. Invited by the... more...
The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators
LSU Press 2009; US$ 19.95On May 1, 1865, two weeks after Abraham Lincoln?s assassination, recently inaugurated president Andrew Johnson appointed John Frederick Hartranft to command the military prison at the Washington Arsenal, where the U.S. government had just incarcerated the seven men and one woman accused of complicity in the shooting. From that day through the execution... more...
In Lincoln's Hand
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 35.00On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln?s birth and in conjunction with the Library of Congress 2009 Bicentennial Exhibition, In Lincoln?s Hand offers an unprecedented look at perhaps our greatest president through vivid images of his handwritten letters, speeches, and even childhood notebooks?many never before made available... more...
Hearts Touched by Fire
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 38.00In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at The Century Magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired a brainstorm: Why not let the magazine?s 125,000... more...
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