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Michael Burlingame
His presence and his leadership inspired his contemporaries; his life story will do the same for generations to come.
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Henry C. Whitney
Written by a longtime friend and ally, Lincoln the Citizen offers a rare character study and insightful biography of Lincoln before he became president. Michael Burlingame restores material cut by…
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A biography of Abraham Lincoln. It covers Lincoln’s early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal training, and the political ambition that led to…
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Frederick Douglass called the martyred president emphatically the black man’s president as well as the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country. This narrative history of…
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An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president’s life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Abraham Lincoln’s marriage to Mary Todd.
Based primarily on long-neglected manuscript and newspaper sources–and especially on reminiscences of people who knew him–this psychobiography casts new light on Lincoln. Burlingame uses a blend of Freudian and Jungian…
John Hay believed that real history is told in private letters, and the more than 220 surviving letters and telegrams from his Civil War days prove that to be true…
Explores the experiences and qualities that made Abraham Lincoln one of America’s most revered leaders. This volume provides an illuminating overview of the Civil War and Lincoln’s administration, focusing on…
Between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and his departure for Washington three months later, journalist Henry Villard sent scores of dispatches from Springfield, Illinois, to various newspapers describing the…
In 1890 Abraham Lincoln’s two main White House secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, published the ten-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A History. Michael Burlingame has sifted through the original…
Dale Thomas
At the age of twenty-two, Abraham Lincoln arrived in New Salem, Illinois, as a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy (in his own words). He did not remain friendless for long…
Guy Fraker
Throughout his twenty-three-year legal career, Abraham Lincoln spent nearly as much time on the road as an attorney for the Eighth Judicial Circuit as he did in his hometown of…
Benjamin Platt Thomas
Gathers the uncollected work on Lincoln by Benjamin P Thomas, regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. This diverse collection is enhanced by an introduction by Michael Burlingame…
Guy C. Fraker, Michael Burlingame
In this innovative volume, Guy Fraker provides the first-ever study of Lincoln's professional and personal home away from home and demonstrates how the Eighth Judicial Circuit and its people propelled…
William O. Stoddard
Depicts President Abraham Lincoln’s agonizing reaction to the defeats at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the difficulties encountered (and presented) by Mary Lincoln, the president’s relations with George B McClellan and other…
Jesse W. Weik
An in-depth look at Abraham Lincoln the man, not the public figure.
John G. Nicolay
From the time of Abraham Lincoln’s nomination for the presidency until his assassination, John G Nicolay served as the Civil War president’s chief personal secretary. This title compiles Nicolay’s memoranda…
Looks at one of American history’s greatest figures, Abraham Lincoln. This book traces the president from his hardscrabble beginnings and early political career, through his years as an Illinois lawyer…
