The Lincoln anthology : great writers on his life and legacy from 1860 to now

Holzer, Harold. (Added Author). Library of America (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary: Brings together 110 selections by a diverse array of 95 writers from William Cullen Bryant to E. L. Doctorow. Represents a composite portrait of our greatest president told by the journalists, biographers, satirists, essayists, novelists, clergymen, poets, play-wrights, historians, memoirists, and statesmen who have shaped our understanding of Lincoln and his complex and crucial legacy over the last 150 years.

Record details

ISBN: 9781598530339 (trade ed. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 159853033X (trade ed. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781598530438 (slipcase ed.)
ISBN: 1598530437 (slipcase ed.)
Physical Description: print
xxxvii, 964 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : Library of America, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A special publication of The Library of America."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 935-944) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction / Harold Holzer -- Portrait by Mathew Brady, New York City, taken February 27, 1860 -- Introduction of Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union (February 27, 1860) / William Cullen Bryant -- From Life of Abraham Lincoln (1860) / William Dean Howells -- From Lincoln on the eve of '61 (November 1860) / Henry Villard -- Artemus Ward on his visit to Abe Lincoln (December 8, 1860) / Artemus Ward -- From The journals (February 1862) / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- From Chiefly about war-matters by a peaceable man (July 1862) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Three hundred thousand more (July 16, 1862) / James Sloan Gibbons -- The prayer of twenty millions (August 19, 1862) / Horace Greeley -- On events in North America (October 12, 1862) / Karl Marx -- From The diaries (1862) / George Templeton Strong -- From The journals (c. July 1863) / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The President's policy (January 1864) / James Russell Lowell -- Abraham Lincoln (February 6, 1864) / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- From Abraham Africanus I (1864) / Anonymous -- Title page, Abraham Africanus I (1864) -- Has an interview with the President (1864) / Petroleum V. Nasby -- The Federal Phoenix (December 3, 1864) / Anonymous --