Item #7283 LINCOLN BICENTENNIAL COLLECTION: 3-volume box set. Abraham Lincoln.

LINCOLN BICENTENNIAL COLLECTION: 3-volume box set

Publisher: Library of America, December 26, 2008.
Edition: SLP, 3-volume box set
Book Condition: New
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781598530360

A three-volume boxed set includes two volumes of the sixteenth president's speeches and writings, along with an anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry by authors ranging from Churchill and Grant to Tolstoy and Twain.

About the Author

Don E. Fehrenbacher (1920-1997), whom the historian George Fredrickson called “the foremost Lincoln scholar of his generation,” was professor of history at Stanford University and the author of several books, including Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850Â’s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, and Lincoln in Text and Context. Shortly before his death, he was awarded the 1997 Lincoln Prize, the nationÂ’s highest annual award for Civil War studies.

Harold Holzer serves as co-chairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, lectures widely on Lincoln and the Civil War, and is a frequent Lincoln commentator on television. He has written, co-written, and edited more than thirty books, including The Lincoln Image (1984), Lincoln on Democracy (1990), Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (2004), and Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861 (2008).

Item #7283

Price: $359.97