Mrs Twain Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Homeschooling has turned dh into a history junkie. (The jury is still out on the kids.) Dh just finished an 800-page book on George Washington. Now he is trying to find a good book on Abraham Lincoln. His free time is limited for fun reading, so he asked me to research and find him a quality book. There are so many from which to choose that I can't decide. Can anyone recommend a good Abe Lincoln biography? Dh is an arch conservative if that makes any difference. It doesn't have to be 800 pages. :D Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remudamom Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 My personal favorite is The Real Lincoln, over at Amazon. Not everyone's cuppa though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Social Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cera Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I liked Lincoln on Leadership by Donald T Phillips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzybluecheese Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Team of Rivals gets my vote! cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatA Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I third Team of Rivals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tntgoodwin Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 http://www.amazon.com/Real-Lincoln-Abraham-Agenda-Unnecessary/dp/0761526463/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327537335&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Unmasked-Youre-Supposed-Dishonest/dp/0307338428/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1327537335&sr=8-2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Twain Posted January 26, 2012 Author Share Posted January 26, 2012 Thanks to all for the recs. I will look into them. I really don't understand what being an arch conservative has to do with Lincoln biographies... there's one simply called Lincoln, by Benjamin P. Thomas that has always been highly rated. There's one called The Real Lincoln, but I've read that there are numerous falsities and many "incomplete" quotes in it. If your dh is a southern apologist, though, he'd probably eat it up, for that seems to be who it was written for. Dh is not a southern apologist, just a general politcal conservative. Sometimes I read things by liberal-leaning authors that tend to either cut out all reference to God, criticize people who believe in God, be too PC for my taste, etc. I was just trying to avoid something along those lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAS in LA Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 (edited) I read an interesting one a few years ago that focused on Lincoln's depression/mental health and its effect on his life & presidency. Can't remember the title. ETA: here it is http://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Melancholy-Depression-Challenged-President/dp/0618773444/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327540100&sr=8-1 Edited January 26, 2012 by LAS in LA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieZ Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I loved Team of Rivals. :iagree::iagree::iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrganicAnn Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Carl Sandburg won a pulitzer for his biography of Lincoln. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2abcd Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 (edited) Interesting responses here. Dh knows a Lincoln expert. I know he (Tom Schwartz) recommends this book and probably others: Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power by Richard Carwardine http://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Purpose-Power-Richard-Carwardine/dp/1400044561/ref=dp_return_1?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books And here is a link to books at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum online store: http://www.giftshop.presidentlincoln.org/a517/books.html Edited January 26, 2012 by mom2abcd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reesegirl Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 My dh is a huge fan Lincoln and has bought about 20 books on him....his favorite book is Team of Rivals...so another vote there. He found it facinating that Lincoln chose his rivals for the presidential nomination for his cabinet. I picked up Killing Lincoln for him for Christmas and read it myself, though didn't really feel that I learned anything new from what I had read in several of the juvenile biographies that I read with my dc. But it was still good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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