Harold Holzer, Author, Joshua Shenk, Author, Abraham Lincoln, Author Bantam $35 (208p) ISBN 978-0-553-80742-4
This illustrated volume, companion to the Library of Congress Bicentennial Exhibition, collects Lincolns' letters, speeches, pages from childhood notebooks, ruminations and reactions, including his inaugural addresses, his 1859 autobiographical...
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Abraham Lincoln, illus. by James Daugherty. Albert Whitman, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8075-4550-8
President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address 150 years ago, in late 1863; the text of that speech formed the basis for this picture book from Daugherty, a Newbery-winning illustrator, which was first published in 1947. The book opens with...
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Abraham Lincoln, Author, Michael McCurdy, Illustrator, Garry Wills, Foreword by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-395-69824-2
McCurdy creates powerful, large-scale black-and-white illustrations like those in his Giants in the Land to match Abraham Lincoln's classic speech in this handsome volume. On oversize pages, scenes of Lincoln delivering the address at the Gettysburg
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Edited by Harold Holzer. Algonquin, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56512-378-6
Lincoln scholar Holzer assembles a valuable collection of letters, speeches, and casual observations of 16th president on the nature of war and the battles that defined his presidency. Dating from the years of Lincoln's brief military service to the
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Abraham Lincoln, Author, Milton Melzer, Editor, Milton Meltzer, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $22.95 (226p) ISBN 978-0-15-245437-1
In his more than 30 books, historian Meltzer has introduced young readers to subjects ranging from crime in America to potatoes. Here, he traces Lincoln's life and the development of his ideas through his speeches, letters and essays. The bulk of...
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