Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
10 best books like Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (Douglas L. Wilson): Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, A. Lincoln, Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food, The Templar Legacy, The Day We Found the Universe, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
| Author | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| ISBN | 0743270754 |
Winner of the Lincoln Prize
Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.
On...
| Author | Ronald C. White Jr. |
| ISBN | 1400064996 |
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD
Everyone wants to define the man who...
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
| Author | Joshua Wolf Shenk |
| ISBN | 0618773444 |
A thoughtful, nuanced portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles.
Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk's Lincoln's Melancholy reveals how this illness...
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
| Author | James M. McPherson |
| ISBN | 1594201919 |
I thought this was a good companion history to Goodwin's Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Whereas that one delves into Lincoln's relationship with his fractious cabinet, McPherson's is a chronological history of Lincoln's interactions with his generals. After reading this,...
How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
| Author | Mark Bittman |
| ISBN | 0028610105 |
Great Food Made Simple
Here's the breakthrough one-stop cooking reference for today's generation of cooks! Nationally known cooking authority Mark Bittman shows you how to prepare great food for all occasions using simple techniques, fresh ingredients, and basic kitchen equipment. Just as...
| Author | Steve Berry |
| ISBN | 0345476166 |
The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it...
The Day We Found the Universe
| Author | Marcia Bartusiak |
| ISBN | 0375424296 |
On January 1, 1925, thirty-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced the observation that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. This discovery dramatically reshaped how humans understood...
| Author | Harold Holzer |
| ISBN | 0743299647 |
Winner of the Lincoln Prize
Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered...
The electrifying story of Abraham Lincoln's rise to greatness during the most perilous year in our nation's history
As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death's door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke, and the Union's top general was gravely...
The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and the president's constitutional war powers went to the heart of Lincoln's presidency. James Simon, author of the acclaimed "What Kind of Nation" -- an account of the battle between President...
"We are Lincoln Men": Abraham Lincoln and His Friends
| Author | David Herbert Donald |
| ISBN | 0743254686 |
We Are Lincoln Men" examines the significance of friendship in Abraham Lincoln's life and the role it played in his presidency. Though Lincoln had hundreds of acquaintances and dozens of admirers, he had almost no intimate friends. Behind his mask of affability and endless stream of humorous anecdotes,...
The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows
| Author | Gabor S. Boritt |
| ISBN | 0743288203 |
The words Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg comprise perhaps the most famous speech in history. It has been quoted by popes, presidents, prime ministers, and revolutionaries around the world. From "Four score and seven years ago..." to "government...
Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
| Author | James M. McPherson |
| ISBN | 0195076060 |
James McPherson has emerged as one of America's finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times Book Review, called "history writing of the highest order." In that volume, McPherson gathered...
President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman
| Author | William Lee Miller |
| ISBN | 1400041031 |
The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world—and back in the nineteenth century a great man held that office. William Lee Miller’s new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.
Wars waged by American...
| Author | Henry Kissinger |
| ISBN | 1594206147 |
Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of...
| Author | Evan S. Connell |
| ISBN | 0865470561 |
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The wife of a successful lawyer in 1930s Kansas City, India Bridge, tries to cope with her dissatisfaction with an easy, though empty, life.
Before Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique there was...
