Best Biographies About Abraham Lincoln - April 2024

Lincoln

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war. Donald goes beyond biography, illuminating the gradual development of Lincoln’s character, chronicling his tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared... [Read More]

• ASIN: 068482535X
• ASIN: 068482535X
• ISBN: 068482535X
• Brand: Simon Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Winner of the Lincoln Prize Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0743270754
• ASIN: 0743270754
• ISBN: 0743270754
• Brand: Simon Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency

Instant New York Times bestseller!A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2018A Suspense Magazine Best Book of 2018A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018A USA Today Top 10 Hot Book for Summer“Makes you feel as if you are watching a live camera riveted on a courtroom more than 150 years ago.” —Diane Sawyer The true story of Abraham Lincoln’s last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement—and which played out in the nation’s newspapers as he began his presidential campaignAt the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison we... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1335424695
• ASIN: 1335424695
• ISBN: 1335424695
• Manufacturer: Hanover Square Press

DK Biography Abraham Lincoln: A Photographic Story of a Life

Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States, led the nation through its darkest hour-the Civil War. Find out about Lincoln's childhood on a frontier farm, how a struggling small town lawyer became president, and why he became one of America's most revered leaders. In this groundbreaking new series, DK brings together fresh voices and DK design values to give readers the most information-packed, visually exciting biographies on the market today. Full-color photographs of people, places, and artifacts, and sidebars on related subjects add dimension and relevance to stories of famou... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0756608341
• UPC: 690472008347
• ASIN: 0756608341
• ISBN: 9780756608347
• Brand: DK CHILDREN
• Manufacturer: DK Children

A. Lincoln: A Biography

• ASIN: B001NLKSCU
• ASIN: B001NLKSCU
• Manufacturer: Random House

Who Was Abraham Lincoln?

Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age—literally! (He was six feet four inches tall.) As sixteenth President of the United States, he guided the nation through the Civil War and saw the abolition of slavery. But Lincoln was tragically shot one night at Ford’s Theater—the first President to be assassinated. Over 100 black-and-white illustrations and maps are included.

• ASIN: 0448448866
• ASIN: 0448448866
• ISBN: 0448448866
• Brand: Grosset amp; Dunlap
• Manufacturer: Penguin Workshop

Leadership: In Turbulent Times

• ASIN: 1476795924
• ASIN: 1476795924
• ISBN: 1476795924
• Brand: SIMON AND SCHUSTER
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Lincoln: A Novel (Vintage International)

• ASIN: B004G8P2L4
• ASIN: B004G8P2L4
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian Science Monitor • Southern Living Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ul... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399589813
• ASIN: 0399589813
• ISBN: 0399589813
• Manufacturer: Random House

Abraham Lincoln: Frontier Crusader For American Liberty

Abraham Lincoln: he brought freedom to the slaves, and held the Union together during the Civil War. His profound and poetic speeches are famous around the world, evidence of the greatness of American’s most beloved leader. But did you know that the sixteenth president of the United States was also a backwoods hillbilly from America’s western frontier, with a Kentucky accent so thick you could cut it? Or that he liked wrestling matches, dirty jokes, and had a reputation for telling hilarious, R-rated stories that weren’t suitable for mixed company? From his childhood working as a virtual... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01BTK89TI
• ASIN: B01BTK89TI
• Manufacturer: Make Profits Easy LLC

Chasing Lincoln's Killer

NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author James Swanson delivers a riveting account of the chase for Abraham Lincoln's assassin.Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia.

• ASIN: 0439903548
• ASIN: 0439903548
• ISBN: 9780439903547
• Brand: Scholastic Press
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

Abraham Lincoln

• ASIN: 0195374525
• ASIN: 0195374525
• ISBN: 0195374525
• Brand: Oxford University Press USA
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books

Learn about the early life of Abraham Lincoln in this picture book biography that Kirkus Reviews calls “a moving tribute to the power of books and words.”In a tiny log cabin a boy listened with delight to the storytelling of his ma and pa. He traced letters in sand, snow, and dust. He borrowed books and walked miles to bring them back. When he grew up, he became the sixteenth president of the United States. His name was Abraham Lincoln. He loved books. They changed his life. He changed the world.

• ASIN: 1416912681
• ASIN: 1416912681
• ISBN: 9781416912682
• Brand: Aladdin
• Manufacturer: Aladdin

Abraham Lincoln

In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce our current understanding of America’s sixteenth president. Volume 1 covers Lincoln’s early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal training, and the political ambition... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00BPSHP72
• ASIN: B00BPSHP72
• Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins University Press

Presidents of War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deat... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307409600
• ASIN: 0307409600
• ISBN: 9780307409607
• Manufacturer: Crown

Who Was Abraham Lincoln?

As the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln guided the nation through the Civil War and saw the abolition of slavery. But Lincoln was tragically the first President to be assassinated. This biography

• UPC: 9853395
• Rating: 4.667

Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in her #1 "New York Times" bestseller, as she chronicles the rise of the the one-term congressman/prairie lawyer from obscurity to prevail over three gifted

• UPC: 4910059
• Rating: 4.669

My Little Golden Book About Abraham Lincoln

Tells the life story of Abraham Lincoln from his boyhood through his life as president during the Civil

• UPC: 53596511
• Rating: 3.0

I am Abraham Lincoln

Follows Abraham Lincoln from his childhood to the presidency, showing how he spoke up about fairness and eventually led the country to abolish

• UPC: 26349074
• Rating: 3.75

DK Biography Abraham Lincoln : A Photographic Story of a Life

A biography of the great Civil War president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, including illustrations of people, places, and artifacts of the

• UPC: 2667639
• Rating: 4.0

With Malice Toward None : A Biography of Abraham Lincoln

Presents a portrait of Lincoln as an uncommonly complex man of compassion and ambition, honesty and political acumen, and wit and morbid

• UPC: 535236
• Rating: 4.333

National Geographic Readers: Abraham Lincoln

An introduction to the sixteenth president's life and legacy includes discussions of his Civil War leadership and historic decision to abolish

• UPC: 20901102
• Rating: 5.0

Abraham Lincoln: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #19: Abe Lincoln at Last (Paperback)

"A nonfiction companion to Magic tree house, #47: Abe Lincoln at

• UPC: 16528009

Abraham Lincoln for Kids : His Life and Times with 21 Activities

An introduction to the life of Abraham

• UPC: 5454587
• Rating: 5.0

Abraham Lincoln : A Biography

Long considered a classic, Benjamin P. Thomas's Abraham Lincoln: A Biography takes an incisive look at one of American history's greatest figures. Originally published in 1952 to wide acclaim, this eloquent account rises above previously

• UPC: 10193305
• Rating: 3.0