Learn About the Life of Abraham Lincoln
A number of new books offer new perspectives to celebrate his bicentennial birthday
By
Diane Cole
Posted December 18, 2008
In Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860 - 1861, Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer (who is also cochairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Committee) looks at the interim period between Lincoln's election and his inauguration. Holzer also has edited The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy From 1860 to Now (Library of America, $40), a wide-ranging collection that includes the views of everyone from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Leo Tolstoy to—yes—President-elect Barack Obama.
Reader Comments
For a less glowing analysis of Abraham Lincoln...
check out the work of Thomas DiLorenzo.
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