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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

    $14.39 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

  • 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

  • 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

    Was $10.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    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

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

  • 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

  • Lincoln and the Power of the Press

    The War for Public Opinion

    by Harold Holzer ...
    “Lincoln believed that ‘with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.’ Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincoln’s leadership by showing us how deftly he managed his relations with the press of his day to move public opinion forward to preserve the Union and abolish slavery.” —Doris Kearns GoodwinFrom his earliest days, Lincoln ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lincoln Revisited

    New Insights from the Lincoln Forum

    by Harold Holzer, Dawn Vogel ...
    In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet’s politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year historians find something new and important to say about the greatest of our Presidents.Lincoln ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A Just and Generous Nation

    Abraham Lincoln and the Fight for American Opportunity

    by Harold Holzer, Norton Garfinkle ...
    In A Just and Generous Nation, the eminent historian Harold Holzer and the noted economist Norton Garfinkle present a groundbreaking new account of the beliefs that inspired our sixteenth president to go to war when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Rather than a commitment to eradicating slavery or a defense of the Union, they argue, Lincoln's guiding principle was the defense of equal ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    Three Views

    by Harold Holzer, Edna G. Medford, Frank J. Williams ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    The Emancipation Proclamation is the most important document of arguably the greatest president in U.S. history. Now, Edna Greene Medford, Frank J. Williams, and Harold Holzer -- eminent experts in their fields -- remember, analyze, and interpret the Emancipation Proclamation in three distinct respects: the influence of and impact upon African Americans; the legal, political, and military ... Read more

    $18.99 USD