· Abraham Lincoln, American history, biographies, book reviews, Michael Burlingame, presidential biographies, Presidents. “ Abraham Lincoln: A Life ” is Michael Burlingame’s two-volume biography of our sixteenth president. Burlingame is the author or editor of over a dozen books on Abraham Lincoln. His mentor was renowned Lincoln scholar David Herbert Donald (who taught a Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Michael Burlingame, author. Abraham Lincoln: A Life. December ; 2 volumes, pages, hardcover. Pull up a chair as we discuss America's most remarkable president and the making of a comprehensive biography. This is a rare opportunity to learn from . · In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter/5.
Abraham Lincoln: A Life Michael Burlingame, Author. Johns Hopkins Univ. $ (0p) ISBN Buy this book Signature. Reviewed by James L. Swanson. Abraham Lincoln. A Life. 2-vol. set. Michael Burlingame. This award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln. Named One of the 5 Best Books of by The Atlantic. Named One of the 10 Top Lincoln Books by Chicago Tribune. Winner, PROSE Award for Best Book in U.S. History and Biography/Autobiography. The result is a picture of Lincoln from all sides, in a style that is relentless but not daunting., The granddaddy of all the recent books [on Lincoln] is Michael Burlingame's Abraham Lincoln: A Life monumental in size, depth and scholarship, this is the new standard biography of our time and surpasses all other life portraits of our 16th.
"The granddaddy of all the recent books [on Lincoln] is Michael Burlingame's Abraham Lincoln: A Life monumental in size, depth and scholarship, this is the new standard biography of our time and surpasses all other life portraits of our 16th president, and is the most important book of the bicentennial." -- James L. Swanson, Washington Times. Abraham Lincoln, American history, biographies, book reviews, Michael Burlingame, presidential biographies, Presidents. “ Abraham Lincoln: A Life ” is Michael Burlingame’s two-volume biography of our sixteenth president. Burlingame is the author or editor of over a dozen books on Abraham Lincoln. His mentor was renowned Lincoln scholar David Herbert Donald (who taught a Civil War course Burlingame took as a freshman at Princeton). Michael Burlingame's long-awaited Abraham Lincoln: A Life, published in by the Johns Hopkins University Press in two large volumes and nearly 2, pages, is believed by many Lincoln scholars to be the most exhaustively researched and fully documented biography of Abraham Lincoln ever written. The work as originally submitted was even more extensive, but largely because of space limitations, it was considered necessary to condense both the narrative and the accompanying documentation.
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