| Introduction | xiii |
1. | The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter | 3 |
2. | The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Josiah G. Holland | 6 |
3. | Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth H. Keckley | 9 |
4. | The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Isaac N. Arnold | 12 |
5. | Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time edited by Allen Thorndike Rice | 15 |
6. | Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life by William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik | 18 |
7. | Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary by William O. Stoddard | 21 |
8. | Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times: Some Personal Recollections of War and Politics During the Lincoln Administration by Alexander McClure | 24 |
9. | Washington in Lincoln's Time by Noah Brooks | 27 |
10. | Recollections of Abraham Lincoln: 1847-1865 by Ward Hill Lamon | 30 |
11. | Lincoln in the Telegraph Office: Recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps During the Civil War by David Homer Bates | 33 |
12. | A Reporter's Lincoln by Walter B. Stevens | 36 |
13. | Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood | 39 |
14. | The Real Lincoln: A Portrait by Jesse W. Weik | 42 |
15. | In the Footsteps of the Lincolns by Ida M. Tarbell | 45 |
16. | Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg | 48 |
17. | Lincoln's Parentage and Childhood: A History of the Kentucky Lincolns Supported by Documentary Evidence by Louis A. Warren | 51 |
18. | The Women Lincoln Loved by William E. Barton | 54 |
19. | Lincoln at New Salem by Thomas P. Reep | 57 |
20. | Abraham Lincoln: 1809-1858 by Albert J. Beveridge | 60 |
21. | The Lineage of Lincoln by William E. Barton | 63 |
22. | Lincoln's New Salem by Benjamin P. Thomas | 66 |
23. | "Here I Have Lived": A History of Lincoln's Springfield 1821-1865 by Paul M. Angle | 69 |
24. | The Unlocked Book: A Memoir of John Wilkes Booth by His Sister Asia Clarke Booth by Asia Clarke Booth | 72 |
25. | The Hidden Lincoln: From the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon edited by Emmanuel Hertz | 75 |
26. | Lincoln and the Civil War: In the Diaries and Letters of John Hay edited by Tyler Dennett | 78 |
27. | The Great American Myth: The True Story of Lincoln's Murder by George S. Bryan | 81 |
28. | Lincoln and the Radicals by T. Harry Williams | 84 |
29. | Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis by David M. Potter | 87 |
30. | Lincoln the President by James G. Randall and Richard N. Current | 90 |
31. | Lincoln in Caricature by Rufus Rockwell Wilson | 93 |
32. | Lincoln's War Cabinet by Burton J. Hendrick | 96 |
33. | The Lincoln Reader edited by Paul M. Angle | 99 |
34. | Lincoln the Liberal Statesman by James G. Randall | 102 |
35. | Portrait for Posterity: Lincoln and His Biographers by Benjamin P. Thomas | 105 |
36. | Lincoln's Herndon by David Herbert Donald | 108 |
37. | Lincoln and the War Governors by William B. Hesseltine | 111 |
38. | Lincoln Runs for Congress by Donald W. Riddle | 114 |
39. | Lincoln's Vandalia: A Pioneer Portrait by William E. Baringer | 117 |
40. | Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin P. Thomas | 120 |
41. | Lincoln and His Generals by T. Harry Williams | 123 |
42. | The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler; Marion Dolores Pratt and Lloyd Dunlap, assistant editors | 126 |
43. | Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage by Ruth Painter Randall | 129 |
44. | Lincoln's Sons by Ruth Painter Randall | 132 |
45. | Lincoln and the Tools of War by Robert V. Bruce | 135 |
46. | Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era by David Herbert Donald | 138 |
47. | The Lincoln Nobody Knows by Richard N. Current | 141 |
48. | Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Harry V. Jaffa | 144 |
49. | Lincoln's Youth: The Indiana Years, Seven to Twenty-one, 1816-1830 by Louis A. Warren | 147 |
50. | The Almost Chosen People: A Study of the Religion of Abraham Lincoln by William J. Wolf | 150 |
51. | Lincoln As a Lawyer by John P. Frank | 153 |
52. | Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850's by Don E. Fehrenbacher | 156 |
53. | Lincoln and the Negro by Benjamin Quarles | 159 |
54. | Twenty Days by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. | 162 |
55. | Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness: The Illinois Legislative Years by Paul Simon | 165 |
56. | Robert Todd Lincoln: A Man in His Own Right by John S. Goff | 168 |
57. | Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters by Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner | 171 |
58. | A True History of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Conspiracy of 1865 by Louis J. Weichmann | 174 |
59. | Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream by Gabor S. Boritt | 177 |
60. | A. Lincoln: The Crucible of Congress by Paul Findley | 180 |
61. | Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership by LaWanda Cox | 183 |
62. | The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia by Mark E. Neely Jr. | 186 |
63. | Lincoln's Quest for Union: Public and Private Meanings by Charles B. Strozier | 189 |
64. | Beware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Thomas Reed Turner | 192 |
65. | Abe Lincoln Laughing: Humorous Anecdotes from Original Sources by and About Abraham Lincoln edited by P.M. Zall | 195 |
66. | The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies by William Hanchett | 198 |
67. | Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker | 201 |
68. | Lincoln in Text and Context: Selected Essays by Don E. Fehrenbacher | 204 |
69. | The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory and History edited by Gabor S. Boritt | 207 |
70. | Building the Myth: Selected Speeches Memorializing Abraham Lincoln edited by Waldo W. Braden | 210 |
71. | The Lincoln Family Album by Mark E. Neely Jr. and Harold Holzer | 213 |
72. | Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate by David Zarefsky | 216 |
73. | Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution by James M. McPherson | 219 |
74. | The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely Jr. | 222 |
75. | Lincoln the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures edited by Gabor S. Boritt | 225 |
76. | Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography by Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, and Peter W. Kunhardt | 228 |
77. | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Gary Wills | 231 |
78. | Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President edited by Harold Holzer | 234 |
79. | The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America by Mark E. Neely Jr. | 237 |
80. | The Shadows Rise: Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend by John Evangelist Walsh | 240 |
81. | The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln by Michael Burlingame | 243 |
82. | The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-Election and the End of Slavery by David E. Long | 246 |
83. | The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln by Philip Shaw Paludan | 249 |
84. | Lincoln in American Memory by Merrill D. Peterson | 252 |
85. | Lincoln by David Herbert Donald | 255 |
86. | Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet by Wayne C. Temple | 258 |
87. | An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays edited by Michael Burlingame | 261 |
88. | With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union by William C. Harris | 264 |
89. | Lincoln's Photographs: A Complete Album by Lloyd Ostendorf | 267 |
90. | Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, editors | 270 |
91. | Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln by Douglas L. Wilson | 273 |
92. | Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became a Father to an Army and a Nation by William C. Davis | 276 |
93. | Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President by Allen C. Guelzo | 279 |
94. | Don't Shoot That Boy! Abraham Lincoln and Military Justice by Thomas P. Lowry | 282 |
95. | On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History by John Patrick Diggins | 285 |
96. | A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War by Henry V. Jaffa | 288 |
97. | The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln by Kenneth J. Winkle | 291 |
98. | The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon edited by Gabor S. Boritt | 294 |
99. | Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Steers Jr. | 297 |
100. | Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography by William Lee Miller | 300 |
| Index of Authors | 303 |
| Index of Genres | 305 |