 | Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.74 Considered the best recent biography...it's well-written and non-controversial.
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 | Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan
Buy new: $20.12 / Used from: $7.25 Kaplan's book is tremendous. Fascinating analysis of Lincoln as a writer, and a thinker. Highly recommended.
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 | The Essential Lincoln
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $12.85 Selected speeches and letters; this book is the best value if you want to read Lincoln's actual words (and you really should!), but don't see yourself making it through a multi-volume comprehensive collection.
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 | Lincoln: Speeches and Writings: Volume 2: 1859-1865 (Library of America) by Abraham Lincoln
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $5.07 If you want everything the man wrote and said, this is the one for you (make sure you get Volume I as well).
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 | Lincoln: A Photobiography (Houghton Mifflin social studies) by Russell Freedman
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 By far the best Lincoln biography for kids, and adults will benefit from reading it too.
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 | The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas DiLorenzo
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.95 A contrarian view...I wouldn't recommend this as a "first" biography, but DiLorenzo makes a number of interesting points and leads the reader to conclusions not found in many other places.
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 | The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely Jr.
Buy new: $34.40 / Used from: $4.76 Neely is the leading scholar on Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil Way, and the constitutional legacy left by his wartime decisions.
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 | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $1.03 A fascinating analysis of the short text of Lincoln's Gettysburg address, and how his speech, in referring back to the Declaration of Independence rather than the Constitution, recast the Union effort the Civil War and ultimately our understanding of the meaning of America.
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