Posted on 06/15/2010 12:04:20 PM PDT by winstonwolf33
I'm planning on reading a biography of Abraham Lincoln for a nice non-fiction change of pace. As you can imagine, there's so many Lincoln biographies out there I wouldn't know where to begin! Certainly, I would like to begin with the cream of the crop, but which one would it be? Even if I do a search in Amazon.com for Abraham Lincoln biographies sorted by five-star average customer reviews, a truckload of titles pop out.
Here's just a few of those titles:
Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig L. Symonds
Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words (Vintage) by Douglas L. Wilson
Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography by Jr. Philip B. Kunhardt, Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, and David Herbert Donald
The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words by Ronald C. White
Lincoln as I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies by Harold Holzer
A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours by W. Emerson Reck
The Physical Lincoln Complete by John G. Sotos
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years & the War Years (Library of the Presidents) by Carl Sandburg
The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln: The Story of America's Most Reviled President by Larry Tagg
Abe's Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Doreen Rappaport and Kadir Nelson
Lincoln's Other White House: The Untold Story of the Man and His Presidency by Elizabeth Smith Brownstein
Abraham Lincoln For The Defense by Warren Bull (Paperback - June 9, 2003)
Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life : The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William Henry Herndon and Jesse William Weik
Abraham Lincoln: The Man & His Faith by G. Frederick Owen
Tell Me of Lincoln: Memories of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and Life in Old New York by James Edward Kelly, William B. Styple, and James E. Kelly
The Essential Lincoln by Tim Davidson
With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union by William C. Harris (Paperback - June 24, 1999)
So after a while, I pretty much gave up on Amazon and decided to just jump in here and see if I can get some feedback from my fellow Freepers. Any recommendations?
Last paragraph of post #153.
Admitting the failings of the Tyrant of Richmond is a good first step.
You represented a superior knowlege of this incident was supported by the venerable black Republican NY Times and that their eyewitness 'reporter' was more credible than any number of distinguished historians who have since looked into the matter.
The reporter in question has been identified as a newspaper hoaxster who served time in jail for fabricating the news.
The burden is on YOU to prove he wasn't also lieing about Lincoln. Got it?
What, and deny his very nature?
Crackpot States of America will not be.
Yes, because perhaps we wouldn’t be inthis situation we are in today with a communist President.
Or maybe you'd be in worse shape. Considering the precedent that Davis set that's a likely scenario.
Jefferson Davis isn’t the one held up on the pedestal.
The state of South Carolina thought it theirs.
Cheers!
Yeah, it's funny how a secession movement that claimed to be based on the defense of property rights pretty much immediately started disregarding those same rights. From the South Carolina state resolution of Dec. 31, 1836: " "Resolved, That this state do cede to the United States, all the right, title and claim of South Carolina to the site of Fort Sumter and the requisite quantity of adjacent territory"
Nah. Wasn't the south that put Obama in there.
You've gotten your revenge with LBJ, Carter, Clinton, and two Bush's.
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