Happy Birthday, Mr. Lincoln!
February 12, 2009 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America. This bicentennial observance is noted with the following new titles added to the Lincolniana already gracing Langsdale Library shelves.
Contosta, D.R. (2008). Rebel giants: The revolutionary lives of Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books. E 457.2 .C76 2008
Ecelbarger, G. (2008). The great comeback: How Abraham Lincoln beat the odds to win the Republican nomination. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. E 457.4 .E28 2008
Epstein, D.M. (2008). The Lincolns: Portrait of a marriage. New York: Ballantine Books. E 457.25 .E67 2008
Gates, H.L. & Yacovone, D. (Eds.). (2009). Lincoln on race and slavery. Princeton: Princeton University Press. E 457.2 .L744 2009
Guelzo, A.C. (2008). Lincoln and Douglas: The debates that defined America. New York: Simon & Schuster. E 457.4 .G84 2008
Henderson, H. (Ed.). (2008). The Abraham Lincoln companion. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics. E 457.15 .A153 2008
Holzer, H. (Ed.). 2009. The Lincoln anthology: Great writers on his life and legacy from 1860 to now. New York: Library of America. E 457 .L56 2009
Holzer, H. & Shenk, J.W. (Eds.). (2009). In Lincoln’s hand: His original manuscripts. New York: Bantam Dell. E 457.92 2009
Kaplan, F. (2008). Lincoln: The biography of a writer. New York: HarperCollins. E 457.2 .K357 2008
Kline, M. (2008). The Baltimore plot: The first conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Yardley, PA: Westholme. E 457.2 .K55 2008
McGovern, G. (2009). Abraham Lincoln. New York: Times Books. E 457 .M45 2009
McPherson, J.M. (2008). Tried by war: Abraham Lincoln as commander in chief. E 457.2 .M478 2008
McPherson, J.M. (2009). Abraham Lincoln. New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. E 457 .M46 2009
Miller, W.L. (2008). President Lincoln: The duty of a statesman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. E 457.2 .M645 2008
Morris, R. (2008) The long pursuit: Abraham Lincoln’s thirty-year struggle with Stephen Douglas for the heart and soul of America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. E 457.35 .M689 2008
Paludan, P.S. (Ed.). (2008). Lincoln’s legacy: Ethics and politics. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. E 457.2 .L842 2008
Prokopowicz, G. J. (2008). Did Lincoln own slaves?: And other frequently asked questions about Abraham Lincoln. New York: Pantheon Books. E457.909 .P76 2008
Stauffer, J. (2008). Giants: The parallel lives of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln. New York: Twelve. E449. D75 S73 2008
Wilentz, S. (Ed.). (2009) The best American history essays on Lincoln. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. E 457.8 .B47 2009