Colorized photo used with permission from James J. Nance

 

Other Books

 

 The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln   Abraham Lincoln: The observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay   With Lincoln in the White House   Inside the Whitehouse in War Times

 Inside Lincoln's Whitehouse   An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln   Abraham Lincoln: A Biography More

Books on Abraham Lincoln

Michael Burlingame offers a Presidents Day reading list: Distinctive personal portraits of Abraham Lincoln  Read More

Publishers Weekly

Abraham Lincoln: A Life

"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..."   Read Review (PDF)
-James L. Swanson

tHE ATLANTIC, December 2009

Abraham Lincoln: A Life

The Atlantic Magazine selects ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A Life for its first pick of the top 5 Books of the Year   Read More

A more fully documented, searchable version of ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A LIFE can be found at the web site of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College

Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln, Burlingame, Lincoln Historian