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 o mark the February 2009 bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, C-SPAN's CEO Brian Lamb and co-president Susan Swain have opened the network's archives to create Abraham Lincoln. This book is an effort to chronicle the life and legacy of America's 16th president through the eyes of 56 of the country's leading Lincoln historians, journalists, and writers.
Fascinating, little-known anecdotes about the president are brought to light in richly detailed essays drawn from C-SPAN interviews. Extras include 16 pages of color photos and four maps that detail where Abraham Lincoln lived, the location of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln's Inaugural journey to Washington and the path his funeral train took when returning him to Springfield. A timeline of Abraham Lincoln's life, brief biographies of the 56 contributing authors, and Lincoln's most famous speeches are also included.
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Susan Weinberg, PublicAffairs
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| C-SPAN is directing any royalties from the sale of this book to the nonprofit C-SPAN Education Foundation, which creates teaching materials for middle and high school teachers. |
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY:
For the 2009 bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth C-SPAN host Lamb and C-SPAN president Swain offer this cornucopia of observations from such notables as Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer, Merrill Peterson, Richard Norton Smith, and James McPherson-all culled from and edited from interviews on C-SPAN's Booknotes, In Depth and other programs...
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KIRKUS:
As the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth approaches, this collection serves as a useful introduction to the startling depth of the Lincoln discussion among scholars during the past decade and a half. Many of the contributors-e.g., Allen C. Guelzo, David Herbert Donald, Stephen B. Oates, Harold Holzer, James M. McPherson, Mark Neely Jr.-are either Lincoln or Civil War-era specialists...
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BOOKLIST:
There are about 16,000 books on Abraham Lincoln, and authors of about 50 of them (augmented by several non-Lincoln historians with opinions about the sixteenth U.S. president) appear in this edited compilation of C-SPAN interviews. Culled from the network's various book programs, they omit the questions put by host-editor Brian Lamb and his colleagues, but the relaxed directness that is his signature is detectable in the historians' replies.
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Charles Adams on Lincoln on Taxes
David Haward Bain on The Transcontinental Railroad
Michael Barone on Meeting Frederick Douglass
Irving Bartlett on Persistent Rumors
Adam Bellow on Springfield Junto
Lerone Bennett, Jr. on Reluctant Emancipator
Walter Berns on Patriot, Poet
Gabor Boritt on The Gettysburg Address
H. W. Brands on Transporting Lincoln's Body
Patrick J. Buchanan on An Economic Nationalist
Carl M. Cannon on The Cost of War
Eliot A. Cohen on Commander-in-Chief
Mario Cuomo on Lincoln's Relevance
Richard Current on Politics & Morality
Thomas Dilorenzo on The Lincoln Cult
David Herbert Donald on Those Around Him
Chas Fagan on Image & Icon
Andrew Ferguson on The Lincoln Obsession
Wayne Fields on Lincoln's Writing
Shelby Foote on Genius
Doris Kearns Goodwin on Winning & Governing
Allen C. Guelzo on Origins & Influences
Harold Holzer on The Debates
Robert Hughes on Depicting Lincoln
Paul Johnson on Spiritual Beliefs
Lewis Lehrman on Economic Principles
James Loewen on Thanksgiving
Pauline Maier on The Declaration's Influence
James M. McPherson on Slavery, the Union, & War
Edna Greene Medford on Complex & Imperfect
Roger Mudd on Conspiracy
Mark Neely, Jr. on Early Years
John Niven on Lincoln & Chase
Stephen B. Oates on An Early Plot Against Lincoln
James Perry on Word from the Battlefield
Merrill D. Peterson on Lincoln's Shadow
Matthew Pinsker on Fraternity & Sexuality
Robert Remini on Lincoln & Clay
David Reynolds on Whitman's Lincoln
Tom Schwartz on Aftermath
Richard Shenkman on Lincoln's Ambition
John Y. Simon on Family Relationships
Brooks D. Simpson on Lincoln & Grant
Richard Norton Smith on War, Weakness, & the Cabinet
John Splaine on Challenging the Incumbent
Edward Steers, Jr. on The Assassination
Joseph E. Stevens on 1863: The Most Difficult Year
Louise Taper on Lincolniana
Peter Wallner on A Predecessor's Opposition
David Ward on Photographic Imagery
Tom Wheeler on Lincoln & the Telegraph
Frank J. Williams on Enigma
Gary Wills on Oratory Style
Douglas L. Wilson on Herndon's Lincoln
Jay Winik on At the End
Gordon S. Wood on Tragic Sensibility
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