 | Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power by Richard Carwardine
Buy used from: £3.72 Carwardine's book is an excellent recent study of the life of the 16th president.
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 | Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Buy new: £11.21 / Used from: £1.84 A distillation of a lifetime of work by a great Lincoln scholar, Donald's biography is the most complete single-volume examination of Lincoln's life.
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 | Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (Knox College Lincoln Studies Center) by William H. Herndon
Buy new: £23.74 / Used from: £29.25 A collection of remembrances by Lincoln's law partner, it is the starting point for studying Lincoln's early years.
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 | Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850's by Don E. Fehrenbacher
Buy new: £18.00 / Used from: £4.85 Fehrenbacher's book focuses on Lincoln's political reemergence during a tumultuous time in American politics.
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 | Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America by Allen C. Guelzo
Buy new: £14.28 / Used from: £2.71 Guelzo offers a good account of the debates between Lincoln and Douglas which set the stage for the presidential election of 1860.
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 | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Penguin history) by James M. McPherson
Buy new: £11.37 / Used from: £4.98 McPherson's classic study of the period, one that sets Lincoln's presidency in the context of the time.
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 | The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (American Presidency Series) by Phillip Shaw Paludan
Buy new: £14.50 / Used from: £4.00 An excellent overview covering every major aspect of Lincoln's presidency.
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 | Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
Buy new: £19.22 / Used from: £13.59 An insightful new study on Lincoln's role as commander-in-chief, by the great scholar of the conflict.
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 | The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely Jr
Buy new: £15.15 / Used from: £7.41 Neely offers an illuminating, award-winning examination of Lincoln's handling of civil liberties during the Civil War.
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 | Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America by Allen C. Guelzo
Buy new: £9.15 / Used from: £6.64 A good analysis of the key document of Lincoln's presidency.
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 | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills
Buy new: £8.00 / Used from: £3.22 One of only three formal speeches Lincoln made during his presidency, the Gettysburg Address gets its due in this Pulitzer Prize-winning study.
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 | Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Steers
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £8.34 The standard work on Lincoln's assassination, which was the first of an American president.
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 | Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858: Bicentennial Jacket by Abraham Lincoln
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 | Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865: Speeches, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings, Presidential Messages and Proclamations
Buy new: £21.36 / Used from: £18.53 This two-volume collection offers a great sampling of Lincoln's writings, from his speeches to his war orders.
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