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A politician is up for reelection, holding firm to their moral convictions — however politically unpopular — in the pursuit of preserving an endangered democracy. Sound familiar? A new biography by ...

2009-02-28T08:00:37-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/725/283934-m.jpgRonald White talked about A. Lincoln: A Biography (Random House; January 13, 2009). In the ...

Writing to a lawyer, the founding editor of The New York Times conveyed his vast respect for President Abraham Lincoln.

The other day, in passing, a friend of mine asked me, “Why would someone write yet another biography of Abraham Lincoln? Aren’t there enough already?” I was dumbfounded and mumbled some half-answer.

Harvard history professor Gienapp (The Origins of the Republican Party) devotes a mere 70 pages of his brief new biography to Abraham Lincoln's prepresidential life; in a volume that "synthesizes ...

Stacy Lynn has taken the history community by storm with her new book, Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who ...

Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks with NPR about his new biography, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. It... Lincoln prioritized democracy over his political ...

AND THERE WAS LIGHT: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE by Jon Meacham, Random House, 676 pages, $40 Every generation gets its own Abraham Lincoln biography. But if time seems to move faster ...

The short and simple annals of the poor -- Young man on his own -- Frontier legislator: his love affairs -- Courtship and marriage -- Lawyer-politician -- The gentleman from Illinois -- Echoes of ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In 1859, the outlook for the new Republican Party was encouraging. The advances it had made in its brief, five-year history were ...