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Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President

10 best books like Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (Harold Holzer): Wilson, A. Lincoln, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, Henry Clay: The Essential American, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life, The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

Wilson
AuthorA. Scott Berg
ISBN0399159215
From Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times–bestselling author A. Scott Berg comes the definitive—and revelatory—biography of one of the great American figures of modern times.

One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential...
A. Lincoln
AuthorRonald C. White Jr.
ISBN1400064996

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...
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
AuthorJames M. McPherson
ISBN1594201919
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,...
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
AuthorGarry Wills
ISBN0743299639
In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence to write the greatest speech in the nation’s history.

The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize...
Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
AuthorDouglas L. Wilson
ISBN0375703969
Abraham Lincoln's remarkable emergence from the rural Midwest and his rise to the presidency have been the stuff of romance and legend. But as Douglas L. Wilson shows us in Honor's Voice, Lincoln's transformation was not one long triumphal march, but a process that was more than once seriously derailed....
Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural
AuthorRonald C. White Jr.
ISBN0743212991
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...
Henry Clay: The Essential American
AuthorDavid S. Heidler
The epic life and times of one of the most important political figures in our history.
 
He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator and leader whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary...
William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
AuthorJames Lee McDonough
ISBN0393241572
A major new biography of one of America’s most storied military figures.
General Sherman’s 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a...
The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows
AuthorGabor S. Boritt
ISBN0743288203
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
AuthorJames M. McPherson
ISBN0195076060
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
AuthorWilliam Lee Miller
ISBN1400041031
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...
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