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Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Summary: "In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 GOO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 GOO

Reynolds, David S.

Summary: "ABE is a cultural biography of Abraham Lincoln, following Lincoln's monumental life from cradle to grave while weaving a narrative that includes Lincoln's cultural influences and the nation-wide and regional cultural trends and moods and happenings of his day, and how Lincoln both shaped and was shaped by his America. The music, humor, literature, and fashions of the time and their impact on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM REY

Gerhardt, Michael J.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "A novel and brilliant look at how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership: acclaimed historian Michael J. Gerhardt, who appeared during the impeachment proceedings of President Trump, reveals how a group of five men mentored an obscure lawyer with no executive experience to become American's greatest leader"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 GER

Achorn, Edward

Summary: "The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in America's history--Abraham Lincoln's epochal nomination as the Republican Party's candidate for president in 1860. Illinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln had a record of political failure. In 1858, he had lost a celebrated Senate bid against incumbent Stephen Douglas, his second failed Senate run, and had not...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 ACH

Allen, Thomas B.

Summary: Lincoln knew that winning the war would take more than the same old strategies and maneuvers. It would require using technology to create new ways of waging war. Lincoln worked to make sure his soldiers and sailors had the best and latest hardware. By combining new tools with time-tested tactics, he helped revolutionize warfare.

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 ALL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7301 ALL

Alford, Terry

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ALF

Eighmey, Rae Katherine.

Summary: "Abraham Lincoln in the Kitchen is a culinary biography unlike any before. The very assertion of the title--that Abraham Lincoln cooked--is fascinating and true. It's an insight into the everyday life of one of our nation's favorite and most esteemed presidents and a way to experience flavors and textures of the past. Eighmey solves riddles such as what type of barbecue could be served to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5973 EIG

Carey, Charles W.

Summary: "The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, declared all Confederate slaves to be free. Because the order only applied to Southern states that the Union did not control, few slaves benefited immediately. Learn more about this historic document that served as a key turning point in the U.S. Civil War and in the movement to abolish slavery"--provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.714 CAR

Jones-Radgowski, Jehan

Summary: "With the stroke of a pen, President Abraham Lincoln freed the South's enslaved people in the midst of the brutal U.S. Civil War. Or did he? Who did the Emancipation Proclamation really free? What effect did it have on the course of the Civil War? And what became of the inkstand with which he wrote the famous document? Find the answers to these questions and discover more of what an artifact...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.714 JON

Arroyo, Raymond

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes a picture book biography of Tad Lincoln and his father President Abraham Lincoln and a story about a father's love for his son and the wisdom of a child. Tad Lincoln was forever getting into trouble. He bounced around the White House making mischief and annoying the staff. Only President Lincoln was never annoyed--he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LIN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LINCOLN ARR

Meacham, Jon

Summary: "A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIN

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MEA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B LINCOLN MEA

Schaub, Diana

Summary: "An expert analysis of Abraham Lincoln's three most powerful speeches reveals his rhetorical genius and his thoughts on our national character. Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, believed that our national character was defined by three key moments:the writing of the Constitution, our declaration of independence from England, and the beginning of slavery on the North American continent....

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 SCH

Burlingame, Michael

Summary: Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president” as well as “the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country.” This narrative history of Lincoln’s personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of the sixteenth president that, until now, has not been fully explored or understood.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 BUR

Marcus, Leonard S.

Summary: "A middle-grade nonfiction book about one of America's most historically resonant images, the circumstances surrounding its creation, and the larger story it tells about Abraham Lincoln's life"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 LIN

Miller, Sarah

Summary: "The thrilling story of Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the US government for her alleged involvement in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.7092 MIL

Jaffa, Harry V.

Summary: "Harry V. Jaffa illuminates Lincoln's understanding of the concepts of self-government, equality, and statesmanship, and he offers penetrating insights into Lincoln's refutation of the political philosophy and constitutional interpretations of John C. Calhoun and the southern secessionists. A New Birth of Freedom is a work of major importance that will require all Americans to reevaluate their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 JAF

St. George, Judith

Summary: Growing up poor in the backwoods of Kentucky and Indiana, Abraham Lincoln lost his mother before he was ten. But Sally Johnston, who married Abe's father a year later, brought a library of books to their log cabin home and turned young Abe's life around.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 LIN

Van Lente, Fred

Summary: "We all know that Abraham Lincoln gave the historic Gettysburg Address and ended the Civil War. But did you also know that he pardoned the first White House turkey, once snuck into Washington in disguise, and grew his famous beard because an eleven-year-old girl said it made him look less ugly?! Rad all about the radical rail-spliter, supreme speaker, and paramount president Abraham Lincoln in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LIN

Avlon, John P.

Summary: "As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln took a dangerous two-week trip to visit the troops on the front lines accompanied by his young son, seeing combat up close, meeting liberated slaves in the ruins of Richmond, and comforting wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. The power of Lincoln's personal example in the closing days of the war offers a portrait of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 AVL

Feldman, Noah

Summary: "An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 FEL

Inskeep, Steve

Summary: "From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present. In 1855, as the United States found itself at odds over the issue of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 INS

Lincoln, Abraham

Summary: "The first full-color facsimile edition of Lincoln's private notes, Abraham Lincoln's Diary is a deluxe collection of some of his most revelatory private writings. An essential archive, here presented exactly as Lincoln wrote them on scraps of paper, these "notes to self" appear alongside original, contextualizing essays by New York Times bestselling presidential biographer Ronald C. White. A...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 LIN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.7092 WHI

Goodwin, Doris Kearns.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in winning the Civil War.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIN

Johnson, Martin P.

Summary: "Four score and seven years ago. Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation's history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address has never been fully told. Until now. Martin Johnson's remarkable work of historical and literary detection illuminates a speech, a man, and a moment in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ Pr of Kansas 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7349 JOH

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