"A magisterial enterprise."—William Safire, New York Times "No review could do complete justice to the magnificent two-volume biography that has been so well-wrought by Michael Burlingame."—Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic Monthly "The ...

This “compelling first volume of what will no doubt be a landmark biography” (Jon Meacham) traces his life from his birth in 1809 through his education in the political arts, rise to Congress, and fall into the wilderness from which he ...

"A magisterial enterprise."—William Safire, New York Times "No review could do complete justice to the magnificent two-volume biography that has been so well-wrought by Michael Burlingame."—Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic Monthly "The ...

Lincoln's law partner wrote a history of Lincoln containing many little-known facts some of which have been disproved by later scholars.

Overview: In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents.

Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political savvy and determination. This is Abraham Lincoln, who indisputably becomes the greatest president and moral leader in the nation’s history.

The Washington Monthly hailed Blumenthal’s Volume I as, “splendid…no one can come away from reading A Self-Made Man without eagerly anticipating the ensuing volumes.” Pulitzer Prize–winning author Diane McWhorter hailed Volume II ...

In Fugitive Poses Gerald Vizenor argues that such representations celebrate the absence rather than the presence of the Native.