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Books About Lincoln
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David J. Kent - Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln's Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America
Jon Meacham - And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jonathan W. White - A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
John Avlon – Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
Wayne Soini - Abraham Lincoln, American Prince: Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause
Walter Stahr - Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival
Roger Lowenstein - Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
O.V. Burton and Peter Eisenstadt (Eds) - Lincoln’s Unfinished Work: The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation
(Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) Essays
John David Smith and Michael J. Larson - Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen: Reminiscences of the Civil War by John Eaton (Voices of the Civil War)
Terry Alford - In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
Thomas J. Ebert and Allen Carden (Eds) - Abraham Lincoln and His Times: A Sourcebook on His Life, His Presidency, Slavery and Civil War
Ronald C. White,Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell US About our Greatest President
Suzanne Jurmain, Murder on the Baltimore Express: the Plot to Keep Abraham Lincoln from Becoming President (for middle-schoolers)
Mark Steiner, Lincoln and Citizenship
E. Lawrence Abel, Lincoln's Jewish Spy: The Life and Times of Issachar Zacharie
Edward Achorn, Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inaugural of Abraham Lincoln
H.W. Brands, The Zealot and the Emancipator. John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom
Michael J. Gerhardt, Lincoln’s Mentors: The Education of a Leader
Harold Hol
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Diana Schaub is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland and a Visiting Scholar in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies department at the American Enterprise Institute. She was the Garwood Teaching Fellow at Princeton University in and Visiting Professor of Political Theory in the Government Department at Harvard University in fall , fall , and spring
Education
Ph.D. in Political Science, The University of Chicago,
A.B., Summa cum laude with highest honors in Political Science, Kenyon College,
Lincoln-related Book Chapters, Articles, and Reviews
His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation (St. Martin’s Press, )
“The Invention of Slavery: Lincoln on whether technology makes us free,” New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society (Fall )
Review of The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom by H.W. Brands, Claremont Review of Books, Spring
“Emancipating the Mind: Lincoln, the Founders, and Scientific Progress,” Walter Berns Constitution Day Lecture (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, )
“Lincoln and ‘The Public Estimate of the Negro’: from Anti-Amalgamation to Antislavery,” in The Political Thought of the Civil War, edited by Alan Levine, Thomas Merrill, and James Stoner (University Press of Kansas, )
“Lincoln and the Daughters of Dred Scott: A Reflection on the Declaration of Independence,” in When in the Course of Human Events: at Home, Abroad, and in American Memory, edited by Will R. Jordan (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, )
“Abraham Lincoln’s commentary on the “plain unmistakable language” of the Declaration of Independence,” Liberal Moments: Reading Liberal Texts, edited by Alan S. Kahan and Ewa Atanassow (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, )
Review of Redeeming the Great Emancipator by Allen C. Guelzo, Society, March/April
“Lincoln at Gettysburg,” National Affairs, Spring
“Learning to Love Lincoln: Freder &#;In temper he was Earnest, yet controlled, frank, yet sufficiently guarded, patient, yet energetic, forgiving, yet just to himself; generous yet firm,&#; wrote J. T. Duryea of the U.S. Christian Commission, which met frequently with President Abraha Lincoln. &#;His conscience was the strongest element of his nature. His affections were tender & warm. His whole nature was simple and sincere &#; he was pure, and then was himself.&#; The Marquis de Chambrun, a French writer who came to know Mr. Lincoln in the last months of his life, observed: &#;Such a nature was admirably constituted to direct an heroic struggle on the part of a people proud enough to prefer a guide to a leader, a man commissioned to execute the popular will but, as in his case, strong enough to enforce his own.&#; Much of Mr. Lincoln&#;s character was framed in early manhood when he moved to New Salem, Illinois to work for shopkeeper Dennis Offut. Lincoln chronicler Edward J. Kempf wrote: &#;A long, lean, lanky, easy-going, smiling, awkward young stranger, wearing tight, home made pants shrunken far above his shoe tops, with a summer day into the straggling village of some 20 log cabins and souls, on the bank of the Sangamon. He quickly made new friends and found employment until Offut arrived with the merchandise.&#; Historian James A. Rawley wrote: &#;The new community, with its merchants, professional men, artisans, and mostly Southern population, framed a new life for Lincoln. He played the roles of merchant, odd jobs man, student of grammar, reader of Shakespeare and Robert Burns, spinner of stories, and soldier.&#; New Salem friend Mentor Graham noted that Mr. Lincoln was often solicited to write letters for his less literate friends. He told Graham that &#;he learned to see other people thoughts and feelings and ideas by writing their friendly confidential letters.&#; New Salem resident Caleb Carman recalled: &#;He was liked by Abraham Lincoln; the true story of a great life
As doggedly determined to share the truth about A. Lincoln as his subject was in the pursuit of the truth of a matter, Herndon has done a great service for us, the nation, and the world. So many have undertaken to write about Lincoln, but none have revealed the man as well as his former law partner, Herndon. At a time when historical revisionists seek to destroy the greatness of Lincoln, all would do well to read this book and rediscover the man who at the pivot point of our national history put America first, as it was originally conceived by the founders, in order to make it better rather than tear it down. He succeeded marvelously only to be cut down at the dawning of the new freedom he was ushering in Wouldn't it be wonderful if our national leaders who will do anything to keep their power and expand it would live and work for principle, for justice, and exhibit a conscience surrendered to the good of We the People, like A. Lincoln did with such humility and firmness of purpose. Wouldn't it be wonderful if this history, ately after the bed, was the substance of what is taught in our schools, instead of the terrible lies and fiction used to indoctrinate rather than educate future generations of Americans. Perhaps then we could truly make America great again in ways that will ensure. Herndon does not exhalt Lincoln but reveals him warts and all. Isn't that what we want from biographers? It's clear from this account n a saint to be venerated, but a man who did all he could to better himself, better the circumstances of his fellowman, and leave the world better for having done so. Read this and never forget what you learn. Find someone to share it with and stem the tide of Marxist strategies to destroy our history. Abraham Lincoln&#;s Personality