Great American Historians on Our Sixteenth President


Just in time for the February 2009 bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, C-SPAN's CEO Brian Lamb and co-president Susan Swain have opened the network's programming archives to create Abraham Lincoln. This book is an effort to chronicle the life and legacy of America's sixteenth president through the eyes of fifty-six of the country's leading Lincoln historians, journalists, and writers.
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Featured Authors

Charles Adams

David Haward Bain

Michael Barone

Irving Bartlett

Adam Bellow

Lerone Bennett Jr.

Walter Berns

Gabor Boritt

H.W. Brands

Patrick J. Buchanan

Carl Cannon

Eliot A. Cohen

Mario Cuomo

Richard N. Current

Thomas DiLorenzo

David Herbert Donald

Chas Fagan

Andrew Ferguson

Wayne Fields

Shelby Foote

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Allen C. Guelzo

Harold Holzer

Robert Hughes

Paul Johnson

Lewis Lehrman

James Loewen

Pauline Maier
James M. McPherson

Edna Greene Medford

Roger Mudd

Mark Neely, Jr.

John Niven

Stephen B. Oates

James Perry

Merrill D. Peterson

Matthew Pinsker

Robert Remini

David Reynolds

Thomas Schwartz

Richard Shenkman

John Y. Simon

Brooks D. Simpson

Richard Norton Smith

John Splaine

Edward Steers Jr.

Joseph E. Stevens

Louise Taper

Peter Wallner

David C. Ward

Tom Wheeler

Frank J. Williams

Garry Wills

Douglas L. Wilson

Jay Winik

Gordon S. Wood

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