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  • Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency

    by William C. Harris ...
    Winner: Henry Adams PrizeAdopting a new approach to an American icon, an award-winning scholar reexamines the life of Abraham Lincoln to demonstrate how his remarkable political acumen and leadership skills evolved during the intense partisan conflict in pre-Civil War Illinois. By describing Lincoln’s rise from obscurity to the presidency, William Harris shows that Lincoln’s road to political ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Leroy Pope Walker

    Confederate Secretary of War

    by William C. Harris ...
    LEROY POPE WALKER, the first Secretary of War of the Confederate States, is probably the least known of the five men who occupied that office. His brief administration of the War Department has long been considered undistinguished. Nevertheless, his accomplishments of organizing the department and placing an army of 200,000 men in the field by September, 1861 reveal that he played a vital role in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered

    by William C. Harris ...
    In Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered, venerated Lincoln scholar William C. Harris revisits neglected features of the life and presidency of Abraham Lincoln that deserve further attention. In this collection of essays written with his characteristically inviting prose, Harris draws on decades of scholarship on America’s most highly regarded president to provide a fresh and fuller treatment of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Lincoln and Congress

    by William C. Harris ...
    Series series Concise Lincoln Library
    Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2018In Lincoln and Congress, William C. Harris reveals that the relationship between the president and Congress, though sometimes contentious, was cooperative rather than adversarial. During his time as president, Abraham Lincoln embodied his personal conviction that the nation’s executive should not interfere with the work of the legislature, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Lincoln and the Border States

    Preserving the Union

    by William C. Harris ...
    Winner: Lincoln PrizeWinner: Abraham Lincoln Institute Book PrizeAdopting a new approach to an American icon, an award-winning scholar reexamines the life of Abraham Lincoln to demonstrate how his remarkable political acumen and leadership skills evolved during the intense partisan conflict in pre-Civil War Illinois. By describing Lincoln’s rise from obscurity to the presidency, William Harris ... Read more

    Was $27.99 USD Now $23.79 USD

  • Confederate Privateer

    The Life of John Yates Beall

    by William C. Harris ...
    Confederate Privateer is a comprehensive account of the brief life and exploits of John Yates Beall, a Confederate soldier, naval officer, and guerrilla in the Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes region. A resident of Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), near Harpers Ferry, Beall was a member of the militia guarding the site of John Brown’s execution in 1859. Beall later signed on as a private ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Two against Lincoln

    Reverdy Johnson and Horatio Seymour, Champions of the Loyal Opposition

    by William C. Harris ...
    Reverdy Johnson (1796–1876), Maryland senator, and Horatio Seymour, Democratic governor of New York, were two influential opponents of Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans during the Civil War. But unlike the Copperheads, they staunchly supported the war to suppress the rebellion. The story of these two figures of the loyal opposition by Lincoln Prize–winning author William C. Harris provides a new ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Adrift

    Charting Our Course Back to a Great Nation

    by William C. Harris ...
    This timely book not only diagnoses the critical systemic weaknesses plaguing America, but also lays out a workable blueprint for tackling the critical challenges we face today. With the intent of spurring a constructive national dialogue, the authors examine how: -We Americans can be jolted out of our complacency and motivated to bold action and common purpose. -Government can work in concert ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • With Charity for All

    Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union

    by William C. Harris ...
    Harris maintains that Lincoln held a fundamentally conservative position on the process of reintegrating the South, one that permitted a large measure of self-reconstruction, and that he did not modify his position late in the war. He examines the reasoning and ideology behind Lincoln's policies, describes what happened when military and civil agents tried to implement them at the local level, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Huey Long

    by T. Harry Williams ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    31 hours 49 min

    He was one of the most extraordinary figures in American political history.Huey Long was a great natural politician who looked, and often seemed to behave, like a caricature of the redneck Southern politico and yet, at the time of his assassination, had become a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency.In this “masterpiece of American biography” (New York Times), Huey Long stands ... Read more

    $34.95 USD

  • Writerpreneur: The Basic Formulas of Fiction

    Writerpreneur Guides, #4

    by William Foster Harris, Dwight V. Swain, Dr. Robert C. Worstell ...
    Series Book 4 - Writerpreneur Guides
    William Foster-Harris, along with Walter S. Campbell and Dwight V. Swain, created one of the most effective writer-training courses of all time. Their goal was to speed the progress of student-writers and shorten the time of study needed before becoming professional at their craft.The list of top-flight authors trained by Campbell and Harris includes, among others: Louis L'Amour, Mary Higgins ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hamlet in Analysis

    Horatio's Story-A Trial of Faith

    by Meg Harris Williams ...
    This is no mere parody - it is a confession, a treatise, and a very, very clever tragi-farce, which is as funny as it is serious, and serious as it is funny. There is a living, breathing countertransference exploration throughout this fictitious analysis of an all-too-recognizable late-twentieth century young adult, Hamlet Dane, and his alter-ego analyst Dr Horacio. Hamlet in Analysis explores, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD