The Lincoln Bicentennial Collection contains three complete volumes of works by and about the 16th President. The first two books, the landmark Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832a1858 and Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859a 1865, which Alfred Kazin called it a amomentous and thrilling addition to any private library, a have been reissued with commemorative bicentennial jackets. Edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher, these two books include all Lincolnas significant works, including both sides of the complete Lincoln-Douglas debates, dozens of speeches, hundreds of personal political letters, communications to the generals in the field, presidential messages and proclamations, poems, and private reflections on democracy, slavery, and the meaning of the Civil Waras immense suffering. The boxed set also includes The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now, which collects pieces by 100 major authors and important historical figures from Lincolnas time to the present. Edited by celebrated Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer, this collection gathers fascinating writing from a variety of genres to illuminate the Lincoln we kw and revere. It enables readers to rediscover Lincoln anew through the eyes of some of our greatest writers, including Winston Churchill, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, U. S. Grant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Henrik Ibsen, Karl Marx, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, Booker T. Washington, H. G. Wells, Walt Whitman, Garry Wills, and many others. Historian James M. McPherson remarked, aThis extraordinary anthology contains the best and most evocative words written about Abraham Lincoln over the last two centuries, skillfully edited by Harold Holzer.a
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Library of America
ISBN-10
1598530364
ISBN-13
9781598530360
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189782594
Product Key Features
Author
Library of America
Format
Hardback, Sewn,Cloth over Boards,With Dust Jacket
Language
English
Topic
Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication
01/01/2009
Contained Items Statement
Contains 3 Hardbacks
Country of Publication
United States
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