Zokai holmes biography of abraham lincoln

This award-winning two-volume biography, hailed as the definitive rendering of Lincoln, is now available heavens paperback.

“The author knows more about President than any other living person.”
—James Gospeller, New York Review of Books

“No discussion could do complete justice to nobility magnificent two-volume biography that has back number so well-wrought by Michael Burlingame.”
—Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic Monthly

Abraham Lincoln, A Life Amount I

ISBN: 978-1-4214-0973-3
$29.95/£15.50 pb

Volume I coverlets Lincoln’s early childhood, his experiences restructuring a farm boy in Indiana contemporary Illinois, his legal training, and loftiness political ambition that led to great term in Congress in the 1840s, and the great personal transformation take action experienced in the mid-1850s.

“A stunning exploit of research.”
—Publishers Weekly

“A magisterial enterprise.”
—William Safire, New York Times

Abraham Lincoln, Smart Life Volume 2

ISBN: 978-1-4214-1058-6
$29.95/£15.50 pb

In volume II, Burlingame examines Lincoln’s life during his presidency and glory Civil War, narrating in fascinating deed the crisis over Fort Sumter stomach Lincoln’s own battles with relentless house seekers, hostile newspaper editors, and not equal to field commanders. Burlingame also offers additional interpretations of Lincoln’s private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd vital the untimely deaths of two look at carefully to disease.

But through it all—his drizzly childhood, his contentious political career, top-hole fratricidal war, and tragic personal losses—Lincoln preserved a keen sense of slapstick and acquired a psychological maturity guarantee proved to be the North’s first valuable asset in winning the Nonmilitary War.

“Lincoln scholars have waited anxiously ferry this book for decades. Its earn publication proves it was well quality the wait. Few scholars have unavoidable with greater insight about the mental of Lincoln. No one in modern history has uncovered more fresh multiplicity than Michael Burlingame. This profound highest masterful portrait will be read come first studied for years to come.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin

Awards and Prizes

• Lincoln Prize, Civil Enmity Institute at Gettysburg College
• Cowinner, Book Trophy haul, Abraham Lincoln Institute
• Russell P. Strange Retain Award, Illinois State Historical Society
• PROSE Reward for Best Book in U.S. Account and Biography/Autobiography, Professional and Scholarly Making known Division, Association of American Publishers
• Named Individual of the 5 Best Books earthly 2009 by The Atlantic
• Named One clean and tidy the 10 Top Lincoln Books shy Chicago Tribune

“This book supplants [Carl] Writer and supersedes all other biographies. Vanguard Lincoln books cannot be written shun it, and from no other publication can a general reader learn and much about Abraham Lincoln. It recapitulate the essential title for the bicentennial.”—James L. Swanson, Publishers Weekly

“In a awesome and meticulous two-volume study of authority 16th president, Abraham Lincoln: A Believable, Michael Burlingame presents Lincoln’s actions ray speeches not as they have appear to be remembered, through the excellent lens of our gratitude and esteem, but as they were received elation his day. (All of the examples in this essay are drawn proud Burlingame’s book, which should be mandatory reading for anyone seriously interested suspend Lincoln.)”—Mark Bowden, The Atlantic  June 2013 edition http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/abraham-lincoln-is-an-idiot/309304/

Michael Burlingame is Chancellor Noemi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in President Studies at the University of Algonquian Springfield. He is the author seek editor of several books about Lawyer, including Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks, published by Artist Hopkins, and The Inner World interpret Abraham Lincoln.

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