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10 best books like Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth (Terry Alford): Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion, The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care, Mourning Lincoln, They Called Him Stonewall, Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour, Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander, Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon, Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
| Author | Harold Holzer |
| ISBN | 1439192715 |
Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincolns 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. From his earliest days, Lincoln devoured newspapers. As...
| Author | Mark E. Neely Jr. |
| ISBN | 0195080327 |
If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln's record on the Constitution and individual rights has fueled a century of debate, from charges that Democrats were singled out for harrassment to Gore Vidal's...
| Author | Scott McGaugh |
| ISBN | 1611458390 |
Jonathan Letterman was an outpost medical officer serving in Indian country in the years before the Civil War, responsible for the care of just hundreds of men. But when he was appointed the chief medical officer for the Army of the Potomac, he revolutionized combat medicine over the course of four major...
How did individual Americans respond to the shock of President Lincoln’s assassination? Diaries, letters, and intimate writings reveal a complicated, untold story.
The news of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded...
| Author | Burke Davis |
| ISBN | 0517662043 |
My family came over to North America, Canada and the USA, at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th centuries. Consequently, I lack a nativist attitude. In order to get at that sensibility I've found books about the Civil War to be most useful, the Revolution being too remote, the War between...
| Author | William C. Davis |
| ISBN | 0060167068 |
Drawing on many new sources, distinguished Civil War scholar William C. Davis here delves into the life of one of the most controversial public figures of the nineteenth century. He vividly details Davis' childhood in Mississippi, his military experience at West Point and on the western frontier,...
Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander
| Author | Edward Porter Alexander |
| ISBN | 0807847224 |
Originally published by UNC Press in 1989, Fighting for the Confederacy is one of the richest personal accounts in all of the vast literature on the Civil War. Alexander was involved in nearly all of the great battles of the East, from First Manassas through Appomattox, and his duties brought him into...
| Author | Philip B. Kunhardt III |
In honor of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, an extensively researched, lavishly illustrated consideration of the myths, memories, and questions that gathered around our most beloved—and our most enigmatic—president in the years between his assassination and the dedication...
| Author | Ronald C. White Jr. |
| ISBN | 0743212991 |
As the day for Lincoln's second inauguration drew near, Americans wondered what their sixteenth president would say about the Civil War. Would Lincoln guide the nation toward "Reconstruction"? What about the slaves? They had been emancipated, but what about the matter of suffrage? When Lincoln...
| Author | Chandra Manning |
| ISBN | 0307264823 |
A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root of the war, how the conflict changed troops’ ideas about slavery, and what those changing ideas meant for the war and the nation.
Using soldiers’ letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers,...
The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln's General, Master Builder of the Union Army
“The lively story of the Civil War’s most unlikely—and most uncelebrated—genius.” —The Wall Street Journal
General Montgomery C. Meigs, who built the Union Army, was judged by Lincoln, Seward, and Stanton to be the indispensable architect of the Union victory. Civil War historian...
| Author | Michael Burlingame |
| ISBN | 0801889936 |
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript...
The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America
| Author | Nigel Cliff |
| ISBN | 0345486943 |
One of the bloodiest incidents in New York’s history, the so-called Astor Place Riot of May 10, 1849, was ignited by a long-simmering grudge match between the two leading Shakespearean actors of the age. Despite its unlikely origins, though, there was nothing remotely quaint about this pivotal...
| Author | William Henry Herndon |
| ISBN | 0252030729 |
William H. Herndon aspired to write a faithful portrait of his friend and law partner, Abraham Lincoln, based on his own observations and on hundreds of letters and interviews he had compiled for the purpose. Even more importantly, he was determined to present Lincoln as a man, rather than a saint, and...
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
| Author | Allen C. Guelzo |
| ISBN | 0743299655 |
One of the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars offers an authoritative consideration of the document that represents the most far-reaching accomplishment of our greatest president. No single official paper in American history changed the lives of as many Americans as Lincoln's Emancipation...
| Author | Jean H. Baker |
| ISBN | 0393305864 |
Mary Todd, daughter of the founders of Lexington, Kentucky, was raised in a world of frontier violence. First abandoned at the age of six when her mother died, Mary later fled a hostile stepmother for Springfield, where she met and, after a stormy romance, married the raw Illinois attorney, Abraham...
| Author | Jennifer Fleischner |
| ISBN | 0767902580 |
A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mulatto dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly.
I consider you my best living friend, Mary Lincoln wrote...
| Author | Benjamin P. Thomas |
| ISBN | 0394604687 |
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“Abraham Lincoln” is Benjamin Thomas’s 1952 classic and may have been the best single volume biography until Stephen Oates’s “With Malice Toward None” was published in 1977. Thomas’s biography was the first comprehensive...
Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
| Author | Richard Wightman Fox |
| ISBN | 0393352633 |
In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us.
The very roughness of Lincoln's appearance made him seem all the more common, one of us—as did his sense of...
| Author | Douglas L. Wilson |
| ISBN | 1400040396 |
Abraham Lincoln now occupies an unparalleled place in American history, but when he was first elected president, a skeptical writer asked, “Who will write this ignorant man’s state papers?” Literary ability was, indeed, the last thing the public expected from the folksy, self-educated “rail-splitter,”...
| Author | Robert Hunt Rhodes |
| ISBN | 0679738282 |
All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted...
| Author | Stephen Mansfield |
| ISBN | 1595553096 |
Abraham Lincoln is the most beloved of all U.S. presidents. He freed the slaves, gave the world some of its most beautiful phrases, and redefined the meaning of America. He did all of this with wisdom, compassion, and wit.
Yet, throughout his life, Lincoln fought with God. In his early years...
Lincoln: The Man Who Saved America
| Author | David J. Kent |
| ISBN | 1435165349 |
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.” – Abraham Lincoln
Tensions over the expansion of slavery had strained the very sinews of the Union for decades. One man stepped forward. Born into an impoverished frontier farm in Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln rose to...
Mosby's Rangers: A Record Of The Operations Of The Forty-Third Battalion Virginia Cavalry, From Its Organization To The Surrender
| Author | James Joseph Williamson |
Mosby’s Rangers were some of the most feared Confederate troops of the American Civil War.
Under the command of Col. John S. Mosby they executed small raids behind Union lines, raiding at will and then vanishing quickly into the countryside to remain undetected.
Formally known...
