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To produce the book, Saunders conducted extensive research on Lincoln and the Civil War, consulting, among other books, Edmund Wilson's Patriotic Gore (1962). [20] Saunders rearranged historical sources to get at the "necessary historical facts", and included excerpts from them in the novel. [ 19 ]
In 2000, Burlingame submitted a review to The Journal of American History alleging plagiarism in John C. Waugh's book, Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency. In the same review, Burlingame also highlighted errors in citation and transcription in Harold Holzer's book, The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861 ...
In “Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded In a Divided America,” Steve Inskeep is taking on one of the most challenging tasks for a biographer by profiling the nation's 16th president. There's ...
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America is a 2023 nonfiction book by Steve Inskeep, about Abraham Lincoln.. The title of the work originates from the phrase "If for this you and I must differ, differ we must," which Lincoln wrote inside correspondence to Joshua Fry "Josh" Speed, referring to his disagreement with Speed's viewpoints, as Speed's family owned slaves.
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle is a biography of Abraham Lincoln by Jon Meacham, published in 2022 by Random House. The book shows how Lincoln risked his political future for his moral convictions, intending to preserve democracy and the Union .
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream (2000) is a book written by Lerone Bennett Jr., an African-American scholar and historian, who served as the executive editor of Ebony for decades. It criticizes United States President Abraham Lincoln and claims that his reputation as the "Great Emancipator" during the American Civil War is ...
After Gore Vidal published his 1984 novel Lincoln, Current began a running feud in the pages of The New York Review of Books, accusing Vidal of willfully distorting the historical record, misrepresenting Lincoln's views, and "utter ignorance" of the linguistic differences between British English and American English because he spelled "jewelry" and "practice" in the British way.