Abraham Lincoln Best Known For - April 2024

A. Lincoln: A Biography

“If you read one book about Lincoln, make it A. Lincoln.”—USA TodayNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARDEveryone wants to define the man who signed his name “A. Lincoln.” In his lifetime and ever since, friend and foe have taken it upon themselves to characterize Lincoln according to their own label or libel. In this magnificent book, Ronald C. White, Jr., offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812975707
• ASIN: 0812975707
• ISBN: 9780812975703
• Brand: Random House Trade
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

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

Abraham Lincoln: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of US Presidents Book 16)

Abraham Lincoln's determination to hold the North and South together would ultimately lead to the bloodiest war in American history, the abolition of slavery, and his own untimely death from an assassin’s bullet. But to see Lincoln solely as a tragic figure consumed with the strife of mid-nineteenth century America is to miss meeting him as a man who never allowed himself to be defeated by adversity or grief or turmoil. From his earliest days on the frontier, he endured the loss of his beloved mother and the demanding physical challenges of a rough-and-ready land where death came easily and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01GZQQG2S
• ASIN: B01GZQQG2S

A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809-1849

The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincoln—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliation—“engaging and informative and…thought-provoking” (The Christian Science Monitor).From his youth as a voracious newspaper reader, Abraham Lincoln became a free thinker, reading Tom Paine, as well as Shakespeare and the Bible. In the “fascinating” (Booklist, starred review) A Self-Made Man, Sidney Blumenthal reveals how Lincoln’s antislavery thinking began in his childhood in backwoods Kentucky and In... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00LD1ONOE
• ASIN: B00LD1ONOE
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”―Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral an... [Read More]

• ASIN: 039334066X
• ASIN: 039334066X
• ISBN: 039334066X
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life Volumes 1 and 2 by William H. Herndon And Jesse W. Weik (Illustrated)

• ASIN: B00AVKSQK0
• ASIN: B00AVKSQK0

Lincoln

• ASIN: B00C1BUYX4
• ASIN: B00C1BUYX4

Lincoln

• ASIN: B009AMANBA
• UPC: 786936830330
• ASIN: B009AMANBA
• Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

"A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”―Jean Baker “My husband considered you a dear friend,” Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln’s assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America―their lives traced different paths that finally met in the bloody landscape of secession, Civil War, and emancipation. Opponents at first, they gradually became allies, each influenced by... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393330656
• ASIN: 0393330656
• ISBN: 0393330656
• Brand: Oakes, James
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln

First published in 1911, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln was privately printed by Frederick Hill Meserve, the preeminent historian of the photographs of Abraham Lincoln. It was a groundbreaking look at the then-known photographs of the sixteenth president of the United States, who was the first president to be photographed while in office. In the decades that followed, Meserve made new discoveries and updated the information that was known about each image. He published an expanded edition in 1944, collaborating with the Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg. This new work, published on the 150t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3869309172
• ASIN: 3869309172
• ISBN: 3869309172
• Brand: Harold Holzer Peter W Kunhardt
• Manufacturer: Steidl

Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

A thoughtful, nuanced portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles.  Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk's Lincoln's Melancholy reveals how this illness influenced both the president's character and his leadership. Lincoln forged a hard path toward mental health from the time he was a young man. Shenk draws from historical record, interviews with Lincoln scholars, and contemporary research on depression to understand the nature of his unhappiness. In the process, he disc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618773444
• UPC: 046442773447
• ASIN: 0618773444
• ISBN: 9780618773442
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Abraham Lincoln

• ASIN: B00XQCE53M
• ASIN: B00XQCE53M

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

Instant New York Times bestseller!A Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln AwardA 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, twent... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1335424695
• ASIN: 1335424695
• ISBN: 1335424695
• Manufacturer: Hanover Square 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: B078QTY62K
• ASIN: B078QTY62K
• Manufacturer: Crown

Honest Abe Lincoln Children's Boy Halloween Dress Up Theme Party Roleplay & Cosplay Costume (Youth Medium (5-6))

Four score and seven years ago...It's true Mr. President #16 couldn't tell a lie, you'll have a lot to live up to in this Honest Abe Lincoln costume. This Boo! Inc. costume comes with an Abe Lincoln hat, shirt, and pants to have you looking like the famous penny and 5 dollar bill president. Wear this for Halloween trick-or-treating, theme parties, and costume contests. Collect all the candy you can, but save some for your mummy. And when Halloween comes to an end, dress up and play pretend all year round. You're in for a spooktacular treat with this classic costume!Handle with Scare:This boy c... [Read More]

• ASIN: B075DJWQ7T
• UPC: 796520359611
• ASIN: B075DJWQ7T
• Brand: Unknown
• Size: Youth Medium (5-6)
• Manufacturer: Boo! Inc.

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: 4.667

Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

An acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian ("No Ordinary Time") illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman/prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to

• UPC: 3931285
• Rating: 4.662

Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster,

• UPC: 23465109
• Rating: 4.662

Lincoln and His Admirals : Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships," but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to that time, not eclipsed until World War I. Written by

• UPC: 14017812
• 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

Abraham Lincoln : Redeemer President

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• UPC: 27097184
• Rating: 5.0

Abraham Lincoln

Marking the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this marvelous short biography by a leading historian offers an illuminating portrait of one of the giants in the American

• UPC: 10271407
• Rating: 4.167

Abraham Lincoln

"Abraham Lincoln was originally published in 1894"--Title page

• UPC: 53264492
• Rating: 4.0

Abraham Lincoln : The Complete Book of Facts, Quizzes, and Trivia

Test your knowledge of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. This book is the most complete collection of facts assembled on one of our greatest

• UPC: 53254596

Abraham Lincoln : Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

Many writers have explored Lincoln's leadership; others have debated Lincoln's ambiguous religious identity. But in this classic work, Christian philosopher and statesman Elton Trueblood reveals how Lincoln's leadership skills flowed directly from his religious convictions--which

• UPC: 21853234
• Rating: 5.0