Nathalie claude biography of abraham lincoln author

Abraham Lincoln is the most written-about person in American history, and the third-most in world history—ranking below only Jesus and Napoleon. The deluge of books about the Great Emancipator has only increased with the bicentennial of his birth this year. In and into the first months of , many notable books on our 16th president have appeared, but some exceptional ones stand above the rest.

In July , Lewis E. Lehrman spent 20 years researching and writing this book, and it shows.

This document is the preface to a biography about Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln in Peoria will not easily be surpassed as the best account of this speech. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, is certainly one of the highlight Lincoln publications of They also offer textual annotations; a glossary of persons, issues, and events; and an introduction for each of the seven debates to put the overall campaign into context with the individual events.

Another notable book of , in fact, focuses more on the context than on the transcripts, and can and should be read as a complement to Wilson and Davis: Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America by Allen C. Last year also produced an unusual number of outstanding large-scale works about the great man. Stowell and five assistants. The vast literature about him offers mostly generalities concerning his legal work and studies of specific cases.

While such a work is not necessarily recreational reading, this collection is not for scholars only. McLean County—keeps it a lively read. The most original—and arguably the most astonishing—contribution from is a two-volume work, The Physical Lincoln Complete , by Dr.