 | Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $3.00 Lincoln Prize winner. Very readable and one of the best biographies for those who intend to read only one.
|
 | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $11.89 With less than a year of formal education, Lincoln held his own with a cabinet impeccably educated in the best institutions in America.
|
 | Lincoln's Constitution by Daniel A. Farber
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $5.75 Did Lincoln deserve to be impeached? This readable book puts the controversy in perspective.
|
 | Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Harold Holzer
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $8.57 Get a full explanation of the speech used in the preface to The Shut Mouth Society
|
 | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $7.51 Garry Wills Pulitzer Prize book about possibly the most famous speech in history.
|
 | Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency by John Waugh
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $3.06 This excellent book shows that Lincoln was a savvy Politian who knew how to play hardball. He was no accidental president and his reelection was a political masterstroke.
|
 | Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief by Geoffrey Perret
Buy used from: $0.47 This book tells Lincoln's story from a military leadership perspective. It provides insight into the man, but not the war.
|
 | Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of Our Most Admired President by Joe Wheeler
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $10.64 One of the best Lincoln books to come out in 2008.
|
 | The Two American Presidents: A Dual Biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis by Bruce Chadwick
Buy used from: $4.02 This flawed, but conceptually interesting book compares the war and political leadership of both presidents.
|
 | American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies by Michael W. Kauffman
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.94 Exceptionally well researched book about the Lincoln assassination. Describes the events and people with clarity and impartiality.
|
 | Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Library of Religious Biography) by Allen C. Guelzo
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $10.25 Lincoln Prize winner. Lincoln examined from a philosophic perspective.
|
 | Lincoln in American Memory by Merrill D. Peterson
Buy new: $30.60 / Used from: $9.98 A cultural examination of Lincoln and what he means to all of us today.
|
 | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations (Thrift Edition) by Abraham Lincoln
Buy new: $2.00 / Used from: $1.64 Learn about this man by reading his actual words. Great bathroom book.
|
 | The Shut Mouth Society by James D. Best
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $16.97 The Shut Mouth Society is a modern day suspense story that interweaves some interesting American history about Lincoln, the Civil War, slavery, and Reconstruction. Find out if Civil war secrets can destroy twenty-first century America.
|
Listmania!
