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Overview
The last guide to the best Lincoln books was produced in 1946. Since then several thousand more titles have been published. As a result, anyone interested in reading about him faces a daunting task in seeking out the books that offer the keenest insights into the man and the legend and lore that surround him.
Michael Burkhimer's 100 Essential Lincoln Books offers a guide to this vast body of Lincoln literature. He chooses books that are indispensable for both book collectors and readers intent on learning more about Lincoln. The importance of each work is outlined with an emphasis on how it has contributed to Lincoln studies. Burkhimer's criteria for selection are based on the book's originality, sources, interpretations, writing style, and overall contribution.
Titles are arranged chronologically in order of their first publication, ranging from 1866 (Francis B. Carpenter's Six Months at the While House with Abraham Lincoln) to 2002 (William Lee Miller's Lincoln's Virtues). The recent resurgence of interest in Lincoln is reflected in that almost one-third of the books described here have appeared since 1990. To further aid the curious Lincoln reader, each title is classified under a general heading, such as assassination, biography, family and genealogy, and reminiscences. Indexes of authors and headings are also included.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781581823691 |
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Publisher: | TURNER PUB CO |
Publication date: | 11/01/2003 |
Pages: | 323 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.38(h) x 0.97(d) |
Table of Contents
Introduction | xiii | |
1. | The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter | 3 |
2. | The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Josiah G. Holland | 6 |
3. | Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth H. Keckley | 9 |
4. | The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Isaac N. Arnold | 12 |
5. | Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time edited by Allen Thorndike Rice | 15 |
6. | Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life by William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik | 18 |
7. | Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary by William O. Stoddard | 21 |
8. | Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times: Some Personal Recollections of War and Politics During the Lincoln Administration by Alexander McClure | 24 |
9. | Washington in Lincoln's Time by Noah Brooks | 27 |
10. | Recollections of Abraham Lincoln: 1847-1865 by Ward Hill Lamon | 30 |
11. | Lincoln in the Telegraph Office: Recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps During the Civil War by David Homer Bates | 33 |
12. | A Reporter's Lincoln by Walter B. Stevens | 36 |
13. | Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood | 39 |
14. | The Real Lincoln: A Portrait by Jesse W. Weik | 42 |
15. | In the Footsteps of the Lincolns by Ida M. Tarbell | 45 |
16. | Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg | 48 |
17. | Lincoln's Parentage and Childhood: A History of the Kentucky Lincolns Supported by Documentary Evidence by Louis A. Warren | 51 |
18. | The Women Lincoln Loved by William E. Barton | 54 |
19. | Lincoln at New Salem by Thomas P. Reep | 57 |
20. | Abraham Lincoln: 1809-1858 by Albert J. Beveridge | 60 |
21. | The Lineage of Lincoln by William E. Barton | 63 |
22. | Lincoln's New Salem by Benjamin P. Thomas | 66 |
23. | "Here I Have Lived": A History of Lincoln's Springfield 1821-1865 by Paul M. Angle | 69 |
24. | The Unlocked Book: A Memoir of John Wilkes Booth by His Sister Asia Clarke Booth by Asia Clarke Booth | 72 |
25. | The Hidden Lincoln: From the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon edited by Emmanuel Hertz | 75 |
26. | Lincoln and the Civil War: In the Diaries and Letters of John Hay edited by Tyler Dennett | 78 |
27. | The Great American Myth: The True Story of Lincoln's Murder by George S. Bryan | 81 |
28. | Lincoln and the Radicals by T. Harry Williams | 84 |
29. | Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis by David M. Potter | 87 |
30. | Lincoln the President by James G. Randall and Richard N. Current | 90 |
31. | Lincoln in Caricature by Rufus Rockwell Wilson | 93 |
32. | Lincoln's War Cabinet by Burton J. Hendrick | 96 |
33. | The Lincoln Reader edited by Paul M. Angle | 99 |
34. | Lincoln the Liberal Statesman by James G. Randall | 102 |
35. | Portrait for Posterity: Lincoln and His Biographers by Benjamin P. Thomas | 105 |
36. | Lincoln's Herndon by David Herbert Donald | 108 |
37. | Lincoln and the War Governors by William B. Hesseltine | 111 |
38. | Lincoln Runs for Congress by Donald W. Riddle | 114 |
39. | Lincoln's Vandalia: A Pioneer Portrait by William E. Baringer | 117 |
40. | Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin P. Thomas | 120 |
41. | Lincoln and His Generals by T. Harry Williams | 123 |
42. | The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler; Marion Dolores Pratt and Lloyd Dunlap, assistant editors | 126 |
43. | Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage by Ruth Painter Randall | 129 |
44. | Lincoln's Sons by Ruth Painter Randall | 132 |
45. | Lincoln and the Tools of War by Robert V. Bruce | 135 |
46. | Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era by David Herbert Donald | 138 |
47. | The Lincoln Nobody Knows by Richard N. Current | 141 |
48. | Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Harry V. Jaffa | 144 |
49. | Lincoln's Youth: The Indiana Years, Seven to Twenty-one, 1816-1830 by Louis A. Warren | 147 |
50. | The Almost Chosen People: A Study of the Religion of Abraham Lincoln by William J. Wolf | 150 |
51. | Lincoln As a Lawyer by John P. Frank | 153 |
52. | Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850's by Don E. Fehrenbacher | 156 |
53. | Lincoln and the Negro by Benjamin Quarles | 159 |
54. | Twenty Days by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. | 162 |
55. | Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness: The Illinois Legislative Years by Paul Simon | 165 |
56. | Robert Todd Lincoln: A Man in His Own Right by John S. Goff | 168 |
57. | Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters by Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner | 171 |
58. | A True History of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Conspiracy of 1865 by Louis J. Weichmann | 174 |
59. | Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream by Gabor S. Boritt | 177 |
60. | A. Lincoln: The Crucible of Congress by Paul Findley | 180 |
61. | Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership by LaWanda Cox | 183 |
62. | The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia by Mark E. Neely Jr. | 186 |
63. | Lincoln's Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings by Charles B. Strozier | 189 |
64. | Beware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Thomas Reed Turner | 192 |
65. | Abe Lincoln Laughing: Humorous Anecdotes from Original Sources by and About Abraham Lincoln edited by P.M. Zall | 195 |
66. | The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies by William Hanchett | 198 |
67. | Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker | 201 |
68. | Lincoln in Text and Context: Selected Essays by Don E. Fehrenbacher | 204 |
69. | The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory and History edited by Gabor S. Boritt | 207 |
70. | Building the Myth: Selected Speeches Memorializing Abraham Lincoln edited by Waldo W. Braden | 210 |
71. | The Lincoln Family Album by Mark E. Neely Jr. and Harold Holzer | 213 |
72. | Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate by David Zarefsky | 216 |
73. | Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution by James M. McPherson | 219 |
74. | The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely Jr. | 222 |
75. | Lincoln the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures edited by Gabor S. Boritt | 225 |
76. | Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography by Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, and Peter W. Kunhardt | 228 |
77. | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Gary Wills | 231 |
78. | Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President edited by Harold Holzer | 234 |
79. | The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America by Mark E. Neely Jr. | 237 |
80. | The Shadows Rise: Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend by John Evangelist Walsh | 240 |
81. | The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln by Michael Burlingame | 243 |
82. | The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-Election and the End of Slavery by David E. Long | 246 |
83. | The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln by Philip Shaw Paludan | 249 |
84. | Lincoln in American Memory by Merrill D. Peterson | 252 |
85. | Lincoln by David Herbert Donald | 255 |
86. | Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet by Wayne C. Temple | 258 |
87. | An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays edited by Michael Burlingame | 261 |
88. | With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union by William C. Harris | 264 |
89. | Lincoln's Photographs: A Complete Album by Lloyd Ostendorf | 267 |
90. | Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, editors | 270 |
91. | Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln by Douglas L. Wilson | 273 |
92. | Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became a Father to an Army and a Nation by William C. Davis | 276 |
93. | Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President by Allen C. Guelzo | 279 |
94. | Don't Shoot That Boy! Abraham Lincoln and Military Justice by Thomas P. Lowry | 282 |
95. | On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History by John Patrick Diggins | 285 |
96. | A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War by Henry V. Jaffa | 288 |
97. | The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln by Kenneth J. Winkle | 291 |
98. | The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon edited by Gabor S. Boritt | 294 |
99. | Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Steers Jr. | 297 |
100. | Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller | 300 |
Index of Authors | 303 | |
Index of Genres | 305 |