In spring 1864, President Abraham Lincoln invited a guest to one of his private rooms in the White House — the room he often napped and read his Bible in. His visitor was Caroline Johnson, a … ...

Two years ago, Paul Tetreault, director of Ford’s Theater in Washington, declared that there are more books written about Abraham Lincoln than any other person than Jesus Christ. The estimate ...

Every generation of Americans reinvents Abraham Lincoln in its own image. Among the crush of recent Lincoln books, these three help us understand his personality, power and relationship to his times.

Using books, documents and ephemera, the show follows Lincoln’s rise from a one-room log cabin in Kentucky to the White House. A catalog published by Marquand Books also accompanies the ...

1. The author, a Clinton White House adviser, began a multivolume Lincoln biography with this atmospheric, authoritative curtain raiser. It reimagines the roiling political culture in which young ...

Abraham Lincoln, his world and his wife fill these books 'Tried by War' deals with his long struggle to find a general who could win the war Joshua Wolf Shenk speculates that Lincoln was ...

The Constitution itself became a casualty in the war Lincoln waged to defend it, Mr. Feldman argues. “Civil war is the very definition of a failed constitution,” he writes.

MARY LINCOLN—Carl Sandburg & Paul M. Angle—Ear court, Brace ($3). In Chicago’s big pan. 15 years ago. one of the brightest literary flashes was Poet Carl Sandburg. His precepts (such as his ...

The only coincidence is the starting point for both, on Feb. 20, 1862 when Willie Lincoln, third son of Abraham and Mary Lincoln, dies at the White House during an epidemic of typhoid fever that ...

An interesting question regarding Abraham Lincoln: How many more books can be written about various aspects of the president’s life? An estimated 15,000 books already have been penned about L… ...