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The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. As a student of leadership, I found it one of the most ...
Each season of The Lincoln Lawyer is a faithful adaptation of Michael Connelly’s literary work, but the stories certainly don ...
Wayne C. "Doc" Temple, the indefatigable Abraham Lincoln scholar who wrote more than 20 books and hundreds of articles and ...
Batavia’s Books Between Bites is wrapping up its 36th season with two more programs. On Thursday, April 10, Dan Hoefler, a ...
A work of meticulous scholarship, this book traces every Biblical reference in the massive nine-volume Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953). In his second Inaugural Address – “a seven hundred ...
Lilliput Books plans to host book clubs and events like paint-and-sips and will soon launch a summer reading program for kids ...
Most everyone’s favorite Republican, Abraham Lincoln, is the subject of a new book aimed at young adults. In the third book of a planned five-part series from local author Jan Jacobi ...
And how could there have been, since the Lincoln administration consistently refused to recognize the secession of Southern states in 1861 as constitutionally legal? In Lincoln’s mind ...
Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, fervently wanted to declare victory and move on and he prevailed in that strategy, reducing the occupying Union Army force until it was ineffectual. If the book ...
Historian and journalist Clay Risen in his new book, “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America” (Scribner, 480 pgs., $31 hardcover) takes his readers through a panoply of ...
“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating ... reducing the occupying Union Army force until it was ineffectual. If the book has a fault, it’s the meticulous detail and profusion ...