Abraham Lincoln

Recommended reading: Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Looking For Lincoln: A Conversation with Andrew Ferguson, by Bruce Cole, Humanities, November 2007
(via Arts & Letters Daily)

Our Inner Abes by Florence King, review of Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America by Andrew Ferguson, The Wilson Quarterly, Posted August 5th, 2007 at Review-a-Day

What Did He Really Think About Race? by James M. McPherson, review of The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, March 29, 2007

The Gay Emancipator? What's wrong with The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, by David Greenberg, Slate, January 14, 2005, at 2:36 PM PT

Honest, Abe? A dishonest book claims Lincoln as the first log cabin Republican, review by Philip Nobile of The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, by C.A. Tripp, Weekly Standard, January 17, 2005

Was Lincoln Gay? by Richard Brookhiser, New York Times, January 9, 2005

The Americanization of God, review by Christopher D. Levenick of Jonathan Edwards: A Life, by George M. Marsden, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, by Mark A. Noll, and Lincoln by Richard J. Carwardine, Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2004

Lincoln's Audition, review by Allen C. Guelzo of Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, by Harold Holzer, Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2004

Lincoln for Liberals, review by Tom Krannawitter of Why Lincoln Matters: Today More Than Ever, by Mario M. Cuomo, Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2004

A Democrat's Republican, review by Alan Wolfe of Why Lincoln Matters: Today More than Ever, by Mario M. Cuomo, Commonweal, September 10, 2004

One Nation Under God, by Glen Thurow, review of Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith by Joseph R. Fornieri, Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2004

One Last Card to Play, by Peter W. Schramm, review of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Allen C. Guelzo, Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2004

Lincoln on Judicial Despotism, by Robert P. George, First Things, February 2003

Honest, Abe book has its moments, review by Tim Cuprisin of Abraham Lincoln: A Penguin Life, by Thomas Keneally, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 5, 2003

Lincoln’s Great Rejections, review by John C. Chalberg of Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography, by William Lee Miller, Crisis, December 2002

Lincoln’s Prudence, review by Allen C. Guelzo of Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography, by William Lee Miller, First Things, October 2002

Irving Babbitt on Lincoln and Unionism, by James Seaton, Humanitas 2002 No. 1 [10 pp. pdf]

The Problem of Lincoln in Babbitt’s Thought, by Richard M. Gamble, Humanitas 2002 No. 1 [12 pp. pdf]

The Heritage of Lincoln, by James Seaton, Humanitas 2002 No. 1 [5 pp. pdf]

Dishonest About Abe, by Tom Krannawitter, review of The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, by Thomas DiLorenzo, Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2002

The God He Barely Knew, review by George McKenna of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, by Allen C. Guelzo, First Things, August/September 2000

Abraham Lincoln & the Last Best Hope, by Jean Bethke Elshtain, First Things, November 1999

Lincoln, 'Macbeth,' and the Moral Imagination, by Michael Knox Beran, Humanitas, 1998, No. 2


Humor: The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation 11/19/1863, by Peter Norvig