100 Essential Lincoln Books

by Michael Burkhimer

Overview

Few politicians have fascinated the American people as much as Abraham Lincoln. The 1990s witnessed heightened interest in the sixteenth president and a flood of books about him that continues to the present. A recent tally indicates that at least 14,000 books and pamphlets have been written about him. The last guide to the best Lincoln books was produced in 1946. Since then several thousand more titles have been published. As a result, anyone interested in reading about him faces a daunting task in seeking out the books that offer the keenest insights into the man and the legend and lore that surround him. Michael Burkhimer's "100 Essential Lincoln Books offers a guide to this vast body of Lincoln literature. He chooses books that are indispensable for both book collectors and readers intent on learning more about Lincoln. The importance of each work is outlined with an emphasis on how it has contributed to Lincoln studies. Burkhimer's criteria for selection are based on the book's originality, sources, interpretations, writing style, and overall contribution. Titles are arranged chronologically in order of their first publication, ranging from 1866 (Francis B. Carpenter's "Six Months at the While House with Abraham Lincoln) to 2002 (William Lee Miller's "Lincoln's Virtues). The recent resurgence of interest in Lincoln is reflected in that almost one-third of the books described here have appeared since 1990. To further aid the curious Lincoln reader, each title is classified under a general heading, such as assassination, biography, family and genealogy, and reminiscences. Indexes of authors and headings are also included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620452004
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	11/01/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	323
File size:	730 KB

Table of Contents

	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