Full name: Abraham Lincoln: Great American Historians on Our Sixteenth President

Authors: Brian Lamb, Susan Swain Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781586486761 1586486764

In a handsome, gift-quality volume celebrating the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, America's top Lincoln historians offer their diverse perspectives on the life and legacy of America's sixteenth president. Spanning Lincoln's life--from his early career as a Springfield lawyer, to his presidential reign during one of America's most troubled historical periods, to his assassination in 1865--these essays, developed from original C-SPAN interviews, provide a compelling, composite portrait of Lincoln, one that offers up new stories and fresh insights on a defining leader.Edited by C-SPAN's Brian Lamb and Susan Swain, illustrated with Lamb's photographs of Lincoln landmarks, and promoted throughout the year on C-SPAN, Abraham Lincoln is a wonderful compendium of information and deeply-informed analysis that deserves a prominent place on every bookshelf. Similar books: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery History by Adam Hart-Davis Astoria by Peter Stark Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon The Gold Hunters by J. D. Borthwick The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders Congo by David Van Reybrouck The Structures of Everyday Life by Fernand Braudel Troublemakers by Leslie Berlin The Rich Don't Always Win by Sam Pizzigati Bird Woman by J. W. Schultz Champion Hill by Timothy B. Smith The Weight of Vengeance by Troy Bickham Where the Sea Breaks Its Back by Corey Ford That Every Man Be Armed by Stephen P. Halbrook