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ELECTION RETURNS 1860 - 1864 New Jersey Totals To: The People of New Jersey BIOGRAPHY AND Abraham Lincoln: Before the Presidency |
PAPERS Face the Nation Why the War Came: Lincoln and the Lords of Lash Abraham Lincoln was No Abraham Lincoln |
SUGGESTED READING
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 Abe Lincoln Loved Animals by Ellen Jackson This child-minded portrait of Abraham Lincoln has been read and endorsed by a number of Lincoln scholars, including William D. Pederson, American Studies and Endowed Chair Director at Louisiana State University, and Frank J. Williams, Chairman of the Lincoln Forum and Supreme Court Chief Justice of Rhode Island. The book has received excellent reviews, and is even being featured on the national bicentennial website. See it there> |
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 Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller In this sophisticated examination of Abraham Lincoln, Miller is on a mission to separate the actual man from the historical praise; instead, he argues, as the title suggests, that Lincoln should be admired on the basis of his moral character. Much modern criticism of Lincoln hinges on the idea that he was a prisoner of his time and society. [...] Tracing how Lincoln came to hold such views, Miller keys on Lincoln's analysis of moral affairs, which he approached with the mindset of a logician. Distilling the elements of the "honest" in "Honest Abe," Miller delivers a still-enigmatic Lincoln, possessed of the steely but subtle personality that makes him one of the most, if not the most, read-about figures in history. - Gilbert Taylor, Booklist |
 The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (Library of America) by Harold Holzer“So prodigious were Abraham Lincoln’s talents, so capacious the American imagination’s embrace of him, that each successive generation of Americans has reinvented his image to serve its own needs and times. No anthology before this one has charted that curious process with more erudition, elegance, and grace.” - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
 Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson"The best one-volume treatment of [the Civil War era] I have ever come across. It may actually be the best ever published... I was swept away, feeling as if I had never heard the saga before... Omitting nothing important, whether military, political, or economic, he yet manages to make everything he touches drive the narrative forward. This is historical writing of the highest order." - Hugh Brogan, New York Times Book Review |
