1. The author, a Clinton White House adviser, began a multivolume Lincoln biography with this atmospheric, authoritative curtain raiser. It reimagines the roiling political culture in which young ...

A look at the 16th president’s rise to power and a survivor tells her story ...

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New book Boss Lincoln takes a fresh look at a well-studied political figure, showing him to be a master of party politics Some historians are wary of discussing their work in light of modern events, ...

“The Lincolns had several Bibles in the White House, each in a convenient place so that they could be easily reached by the president. He liked to read the Bible every day when he could, especially ...

Jonathan White is a professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University and an author. Historians and the general public regularly rank Abraham Lincoln as America’s greatest president.

There has been of late a bull market for books about Abraham Lincoln because of the forthcoming bicentennial of his birth, Feb. 12, 1809. This reviewer is not an authority on Lincoln, but ever since ...

Abraham Lincoln's leadership is often remembered for reaching across the aisle – he tried to find compromises even in the most divisive times. But as successful as he was in saving the union, Lincoln ...