Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Burlingame, Michael

Abraham Lincoln: A Life

This award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln.Named One of the 5 Best...
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Author: Michael Burlingame
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Burlingame, Michael

Abraham Lincoln: A Life

$516.43

Abraham Lincoln: A Life

$516.43
Author: Michael Burlingame
Format: Boxed Set
Language: English

This award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln.

Named One of the 5 Best Books of 2009 by The AtlanticNamed One of the 10 Top Lincoln Books by Chicago Tribune Winner, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in U.S. History and Biography/Autobiography, Association of American PublishersWinner, 2010 Lincoln Prize from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College

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 archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce our current understanding of America's sixteenth president.

Volume 1 covers Lincoln's early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal training, and the political ambition that led to a term in Congress in the 1840s. In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's life during his presidency and the Civil War, narrating in fascinating detail the crisis over Fort Sumter and Lincoln's own battles with relentless office seekers, hostile newspaper editors, and incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also offers new interpretations of Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd and the untimely deaths of two sons to disease.

In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's presidency and the trials of the Civil War. He supplies fascinating details on the crisis over Fort Sumter and the relentless office seekers who plagued Lincoln. He introduces readers to the president's battles with hostile newspaper editors and his quarrels with incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also interprets Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd, the untimely death of his son Willie to disease in 1862, and his recurrent anguish over the enormous human costs of the war.



Author: Michael Burlingame
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 12/01/2008
Pages: 2008
Binding Type: Boxed Set
Weight: 9.50lbs
Size: 10.50h x 7.50w x 5.00d
ISBN: 9780801889936


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/03/2008 pg. 50
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/03/2008 pg. 29
New York Times Book Review 02/08/2009 pg. 10
Chronicle of Higher Education 03/20/2009 pg. 17
Choice 09/01/2009
New York Review of Books 09/24/2009 pg. 58
Books & Culture 11/01/2009 pg. 16

About the Author

Michael Burlingame is Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield. He is the author or editor of several books about Lincoln, including Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks, published by Johns Hopkins, and The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln.




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