Abraham Lincoln: A Life: Volume 1 Paperback - 2013
by Burlingame, Michael
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Details
- Title Abraham Lincoln: A Life: Volume 1
- Author Burlingame, Michael
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 960
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
- Date 2013-04-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR006486809
- ISBN 9781421409733 / 1421409739
- Weight 3.3 lbs (1.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.9 x 7 x 1.7 in (25.15 x 17.78 x 4.32 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Topical: Civil War
- Dewey Decimal Code B
From the jacket flap
Lincoln Prize, Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
Cowinner, Book Award, Abraham Lincoln Institute
Russell P. Strange Book Award, Illinois State Historical Society
PROSE Award for Best Book in U.S. History and Biography/Autobiography, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers
Named One of the 5 Best Books of 2009 by The Atlantic
Named One of the 10 Top Lincoln Books by Chicago Tribune
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 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 troubled relationship with his father, his legal training, the political ambition that led to a term in Congress in the 1840s, and the great personal transformation he experienced in the mid-1850s.
A magisterial enterprise.--William Safire, New York Times
No review could do complete justice to the magnificent two-volume biography that has been so well-wrought by Michael Burlingame.--Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic Monthly
The author knows more about Lincoln than any other living person.--James McPherson, New York Review of Books
This book supplants [Carl] Sandburg and supersedes all other biographies. Future Lincoln books cannot be written without it, and from no other book can a general reader learn so much about Abraham Lincoln. It is the essential title for the bicentennial.--James L. Swanson, Publishers Weekly
Burlingame is a towering figure in Lincoln scholarship, and students of the 16th president have been waiting for this book for years. For all his learning--Burlingame may know more about Lincoln and his era than anyone in the world--his take on his subject is fresh, and he doesn't gloss over Lincoln's less appealing attributes. Abraham Lincoln comes as close to being the definitive biography as anything the world has seen in decades.--Time
--Kenneth J. Winkle, University of Nebraska-Lincoln "Atlantic"