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  • The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text

    by Harold Holzer ...
    This authoritative edition of the Lincoln-Douglas debates from a leading Lincoln historian brings to life the passions that divided nineteenth-century America.The seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held during the Illinois senatorial race of 1858 include some of the most important statements in American political history. Taken together, they embody the nation's dramatic ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lincoln Revisited

    by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, Dawn Vogel ...
    This essay collection "draws together some of the best and brightest Abraham Lincoln scholars around" for a fresh and enlightening view of his life ( The Journal of American History).More than 150 years after his death, Abraham Lincoln remains the most written-about figure in American history. Lincoln Revisited is a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our ... Read more

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  • Exploring Lincoln

    Great Historians Reappraise Our Greatest President

    Edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, Frank J. Williams ...
    In these 16 essays, Lincoln scholars offer fresh perspectives and revealing new research on the life and times of America's greatest president.Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both fascinating and irresistible. Though some 16,000 books have been written about him, there is always more to say, new aspects of his life ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lincoln President-Elect

    Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861

    by Harold Holzer ...
    One 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 the cost of civil war.Abraham Lincoln first demonstrated ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Lincoln Assassination

    Crime & Punishment, Myth & Memory

    by Thomas R. Turner, Michael W. Kauffman, Thomas P. Lowry, Richard E. Sloan, Elizabeth D. Leonard, Richard Nelson Current, Edward Steers ...
    Diverse perspectives on Lincoln's assassination, its aftermath, and its place in national memory from some of today's leading Lincoln scholars.The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most significant events in US history. It continues to attract the interest of scholars, writers, and armchair historians, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. Now ... Read more

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  • Lincoln

    How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America

    by Harold Holzer ...
    A 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 filmmakers to write a special Lincoln book as a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summers with Lincoln

    Looking for the Man in the Monuments

    by James A. Percoco ...
    A journey across America revealing "the history of how seven of these monuments came to be . . . and what they mean to us today" ( The Washington Times).Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly two hundred statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated.A few years ago, Jim Percoco, a ... Read more

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  • Lincoln Legends

    Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President

    by Edward Steers ...
    "Succinctly and eloquently debunks 14 popular myths about the Great Emancipator's life and death [with] solid documentation." — Publishers WeeklyIn the more than 150 years since his death, Abraham Lincoln has become America's most revered president. The mythmaking about this self-made man began early, some of it starting during his campaign for the presidency in 1860. As an American icon, Lincoln ... Read more

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  • Lincoln at Cooper Union

    The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President

    by Harold Holzer ...
    Winner of the Lincoln PrizeLincoln 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 for the presidency ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Brought Forth on This Continent

    Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration

    by Harold Holzer ...
    ****Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln Award****Winner of the Lincoln Group of New York's Award of Achievement**From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War.**In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Presidents vs. the Press

    The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media--from the Founding Fathers to Fake News

    by Harold Holzer ...
    An award-winning presidential historian offers an authoritative account of American presidents' attacks on our freedom of the press.“The FAKE NEWS media,” Donald Trump has tweeted, “is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” Has our free press ever faced as great a threat? Perhaps not—but the tension between presidents and journalists is as old as the republic itself.Every president ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Civil War in 50 Objects

    by Harold Holzer, New-York Historical Society ...
    The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects, a fresh, visual perspective on the Civil WarFrom a soldier’s diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown’s pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the leaves from Abraham Lincoln’s bier, here is a unique and surprisingly intimate look at the Civil War.Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer sheds new light on the war by examining fifty ... Read more

    $6.99 USD