Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum (Lincoln Forum Books)
by Harold Holzer
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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 Revisited is a masterly guidePub to what ́s new and what ́s noteworthy in this unfolding story ́a show more brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time. Brought together by The Lincoln Forum, they tackle uncharted territory and emerging questions; they also take a new look at established debates ́including those about their own landmark works.Here, these well-known historians revisit key chapters in Lincoln ́s legacy ́from Matthew Pinsker on Lincoln ́s private life and Jean Baker on religion and the Lincoln marriage to Geoffrey Perret on Lincoln as leader and Frank J. Williams on Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime.The eighteen original essays explore every corner of Lincoln ́s world ́religion and politics, slavery and sovereignty, presidential leadership and the rule of law, the Second Inaugural Address and the assassination.In his 1947 classic, Lincoln Reconsidered, David Herbert Donald confronted the Lincoln myth. Today, the scholars in Lincoln Revisited give a new generation of students, scholars, and citizens the perspectives vital for understanding the constantly reinterpreted genius of Abraham Lincoln. show lessTags
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Harold Holzer is one of the leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He is a prolific writer and lecturer. He has written, co-written and edited over 30 books including Abraham Lincoln, The Writer (2000), which was named to the Children's Literature Choice List and the Bank Street Best Children's Books show more of the Year, and Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (2004), which won a 2005 Lincoln Prize. He has also written over 425 popular magazine and scholarly journal articles and numerous pamphlets and monographs. He has won numerous awards including the Barondess Award of the Civil War Round Table of New York five times; the Award of Achievement from the Lincoln Group of New York three times; a 1988 George Washington Medal; the 2000 Newman Book Award; and the 2008 National Humanities Medal. He is the Senior Vice President for External Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- People/Characters
- John Wilkes Booth; Mathew Brady; Willard Cutter (private in the infantry unit assigned to the Soldiers' Home); David V. Derickson (Captain, led the infantry unit assigned to the Soldiers' Home); Stephen A. Douglas; Julia Dent Grant (show all 23); Ulysses S. Grant; Henry W. Halleck; John Hay; William Henry Herndon; Andrew Johnson; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (in essay comparing Lincoln, Grant, MacArthur, Kennedy); John F. Kennedy (in essay comparing Lincoln, Grant, MacArthur, Kennedy); Abraham Lincoln; Mary Todd Lincoln; Douglas MacArthur (in essay comparing Lincoln, Grant, MacArthur, Kennedy); George B. McClellan; Samuel A. Mudd (Dr.); John G. Nicolay; William Queen (Dr.); William Henry Seward; Joshua Fry Speed; Edwin M. Stanton
- Important places
- USA; Washington, D.C., USA; Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C., USA
- Important events
- United States presidential election (1860)
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Business
- DDC/MDS
- 973.7092 — History & geography History of North America United States Civil War Era (1857-1865) Civil War
- LCC
- E457.8 .L747 — History of the United States United States Civil War period, 1861-1865 Lincoln's administrations, 1861-April 15, 1865
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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