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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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LINCOLN MEAFeldman, 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 FELPuleo, Stephen
Summary: "On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 PULCarey, 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 CARLowenstein, Roger
Summary: "In Ways and Means, journalist Roger Lowenstein reveals the unlikely story of how Abraham Lincoln used the urgency of financing the Civil War to transform a union of states into one united nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and his congress, changed the direction of the country"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 GOOInskeep, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 INSGerhardt, Michael J.
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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 GERAchorn, 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
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 ACHHolzer, Harold.
Summary: Lincoln believed that ‘with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.’ Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincoln’s leadership by showing us how deftly he managed his relations with the press of his day to move public opinion forward to preserve the Union and abolish slavery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM HOLGoodwin, Doris Kearns.
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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINGoodwin, Doris Kearns.
Summary: This multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. Historian Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as the one-term congressman rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals to become president. When Lincoln emerged as the victor at the Republican National Convention, his rivals were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LinLincoln, 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
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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
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 LINConroy, James B.
Summary: "Our One Common Country explores the most critical meeting of the Civil War. Given short shrift or overlooked by many historians, the Hampton Roads Conference of 1865 was a crucial turning point in the War between the States. In this well written and highly documented book, James B. Conroy describes in fascinating detail what happened when leaders from both sides came together to try to end the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.738 CONJohnson, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7349 JOHLarson, Erik
Summary: "On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEBrookhiser, Richard.
Summary: In Founders’ Son, celebrated historian Richard Brookhiser presents a compelling new biography of Abraham Lincoln that highlights his lifelong struggle to carry on the work of the Founding Fathers. Following Lincoln from his humble origins in Kentucky to his assassination in Washington, D.C., Brookhiser shows us every side of the man: laborer, lawyer, congressman, president; storyteller, wit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM BROJaffa, 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 JAFCooper, William J. (William James)
Summary: Presents a revisionist account of the period between Lincoln's election and the firing on Fort Sumter, evaluating the contributions of key figures and the circumstances that contributed to the Civil War's inevitability.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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Summary: Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president--the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation's wounds. His presidency is the hinge on which American history pivots, the time when the young republic collapsed of its own contradictions and a new birth of freedom, sanctified by blood, created the United States we know today. His story has been told many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2009
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Summary: Lincoln scholar Ronald C. White, Jr., offers a fresh definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity--what today's commentators would call "authenticity"--whose moral compass holds the key to understanding his life. Through meticulous research of the newly completed Lincoln Legal Papers, as well as of recently discovered letters and photographs, White provides a portrait of Lincoln's personal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009