The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now

By Harold Holzer

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Edited by historian Harold Holzer, this 2009 Library of America anthology gathers 110 pieces by 95 writers responding to Abraham Lincoln from 1860 to the present day. Contributors include Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, W. E. B. Du Bois, Winston Churchill and Carl Sandburg. Their poems, speeches, essays and stories trace how Lincoln's reputation has been shaped and reshaped across a century and a half of American history.

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