ABE: Abraham Lincoln in his Times By David S. Reynolds
David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other iconic works of nineteenth century American history, understands the currents in which Abraham Lincoln swam as well as anyone alive. His magisterial biography ABE: Abraham Lincoln in His Times (Penguin Press) is the product of full-body immersion into the riotous tumult of American life in the decades before the Civil War, and a framework for understanding the politics of our own divided age.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David S. Reynolds is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the…
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