

Hero image 0 of Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times, (Paperback), 0 of 1
Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times, (Paperback)
(No ratings yet)
Key item features
- Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times, (Paperback)
- Author: Penguin Books
- ISBN: 9780143110767
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 2021-09-28
- Page Count: 1088
Specs
- Book formatPaperback
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- GenreBiography & Memoirs
- Publication dateSeptember, 2021
- Pages1088
- Reading levelGeneral/Trade
Current price is USDNow $13.48
You save $3.23
was $16.71$16.71
You save$3.23
Price when purchased online
- Free shipping
Free 30-day returns
How do you want your item?
Ships to
Arrives between May 23 - May 28
|Sold and shipped by Alibris Books
4.569070526966193 stars out of 5, based on 11329 seller reviews(4.6)11329 seller reviews
Free 30-day returns
More seller options (2)
Starting from $20.86
About this item
Product details
Now an Apple TV+ documentary, Lincoln's Dilemma. One of the Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book A Christian Science Monitor and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020 Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Abraham Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award "A marvelous cultural biography that captures Lincoln in all his historical fullness. . . . using popular culture in this way, to fill out the context surrounding Lincoln, is what makes Mr. Reynolds's biography so different and so compelling . . . Where did the sympathy and compassion expressed in [Lincoln's] Second Inaugural--'With malice toward none; with charity for all'--come from? This big, wonderful book provides the richest cultural context to explain that, and everything else, about Lincoln." --Gordon Wood, Wall Street Journal From one of the great historians of nineteenth-century America, a revelatory and enthralling new biography of Lincoln, many years in the making, that brings him to life within his turbulent age David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other iconic works of nineteenth century American history, understands the currents in which Abraham Lincoln swam as well as anyone alive. His magisterial biography Abe is the product of full-body immersion into the riotous tumult of American life in the decades before the Civil War. It was a country growing up and being pulled apart at the same time, with a democratic popular culture that reflected the country's contradictions. Lincoln's lineage was considered auspicious by Emerson, Whitman, and others who prophesied that a new man from the West would emerge to balance North and South. From New England Puritan stock on his father's side and Virginia Cavalier gentry on his mother's, Lincoln was linked by blood to the central conflict of the age. And an enduring theme of his life, Reynolds shows, was his genius for striking a balance between opposing forces. Lacking formal schooling but with an unquenchable thirst for self-improvement, Lincoln had a talent for wrestling and bawdy jokes that made him popular with his peers, even as his appetite for poetry and prodigious gifts for memorization set him apart from them through his childhood, his years as a lawyer, and his entrance into politics. No one can transcend the limitations of their time, and Lincoln was no exception. But what emerges from Reynolds's masterful reckoning is a man who at each stage in his life managed to arrive at a broader view of things than all but his most enlightened peers. As a politician, he moved too slowly for some and too swiftly for many, but he always pushed toward justice while keeping the whole nation in mind. Abe culminates, of course, in the Civil War, the defining test of Lincoln and his beloved country. Reynolds shows us the extraordinary range of cultural knowledge Lincoln drew from as he shaped a vision of true union, transforming, in Martin Luther King Jr.'s words, "the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood." Abraham Lincoln did not come out of nowhere. But if he was shaped by his times, he also managed at his life's fateful hour to shape them to an extent few could have foreseen. Ultimately, this is the great drama that astonishes us still, and that
- Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times, (Paperback)
- Author: Penguin Books
- ISBN: 9780143110767
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 2021-09-28
- Page Count: 1088
info:
We aim to show you accurate product information. Manufacturers, suppliers and others provide what you see here, and we have not verified it. Â
Specifications
Book format
Paperback
Fiction/nonfiction
Non-Fiction
Genre
Biography & Memoirs
Publication date
September, 2021
Warranty
Warranty information
Please be aware that the warranty terms on items offered for sale by third party Marketplace sellers may differ from those displayed in this section (if any). To confirm warranty terms on an item offered for sale by a third party Marketplace seller, please use the 'Contact seller' feature on the third party Marketplace seller's information page and request the item's warranty terms prior to purchase.
Similar items you might like
Based on what customers bought
They Should Have Been Hanged: War Nerd Essays on the U.S. Civil War, (Paperback) $18.63
$1863current price $18.63They Should Have Been Hanged: War Nerd Essays on the U.S. Civil War, (Paperback)
Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, (Paperback) $4.34
$434current price $4.34Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, (Paperback)
Abraham Lincoln and the Bixby Letter, (Paperback) $13.95
$1395current price $13.95Abraham Lincoln and the Bixby Letter, (Paperback)
Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration, (Paperback) $19.89
$1989current price $19.89Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration, (Paperback)
Concise Lincoln Library Lincoln's Assassination, (Paperback) $18.44
$1844current price $18.44Concise Lincoln Library Lincoln's Assassination, (Paperback)
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Paperback) $16.48
$1648current price $16.48The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (Paperback)
Lincoln in Indiana Paperback 1015340512 9781015340510 Murr, J Edward $18.95
$1895current price $18.95Lincoln in Indiana Paperback 1015340512 9781015340510 Murr, J Edward
Pre-Owned With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback) by Stephen B Oates $4.44
3 optionsAvailable in additional 3 options$444current price $4.44Pre-Owned With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback) by Stephen B Oates
Abraham Lincoln, (Paperback) $13.95
$1395current price $13.95Abraham Lincoln, (Paperback)
Vintage Civil War Library Did Lincoln Own Slaves?: And Other Frequently Asked Questions about Abraham Lincoln, (Paperback) $13.40
$1340current price $13.40Vintage Civil War Library Did Lincoln Own Slaves?: And Other Frequently Asked Questions about Abraham Lincoln, (Paperback)
Pre-Owned The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac (Paperback) 0743225074 9780743225076 $7.52
$752current price $7.52Pre-Owned The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac (Paperback) 0743225074 9780743225076
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Paperback) $17.89
$1789current price $17.89The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Paperback)
George Washington's Rules of Civility, (Paperback) $16.50 Was $19.18
$1650current price $16.50, Was $19.18$19.18George Washington's Rules of Civility, (Paperback)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Paperback) $22.02
$2202current price $22.02The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Paperback)
Pre-Owned A Battle from the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest, 9780060924454, 0060924454, Paperback, Reprint edition $13.93
$1393current price $13.93Pre-Owned A Battle from the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest, 9780060924454, 0060924454, Paperback, Reprint edition
Pre-Owned Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (Revised) (Paperback) by James M McPherson $3.99
3 optionsAvailable in additional 3 options$399current price $3.99Pre-Owned Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (Revised) (Paperback) by James M McPherson
Lincoln, Captain Cummings' Recollections of "Honest Abe", (Paperback) $15.95
$1595current price $15.95Lincoln, Captain Cummings' Recollections of "Honest Abe", (Paperback)
Pre-Owned Empire of the Owls: Reflections on the North's War Against Southern Secession (Paperback) 0988909944 9780988909946 $19.45 10.8 ¢/lb
$1945current price $19.4510.8 ¢/lbPre-Owned Empire of the Owls: Reflections on the North's War Against Southern Secession (Paperback) 0988909944 9780988909946
Pre-Owned The Presidents' War: Six American Presidents and the Civil War That Divided Them (Hardcover) 0762796642 9780762796649 $8.55
$855current price $8.55Pre-Owned The Presidents' War: Six American Presidents and the Civil War That Divided Them (Hardcover) 0762796642 9780762796649
13 out of 5 Stars. 1 reviews
Customer ratings & reviews
0 ratings|0 reviews
This item does not have any reviews yet
Related pages
- History Uc Davis
- Lincoln Papers Civil War United States History Books
- Miller Center Presidents
- Civil War United States History Books
- Revolutionary Period United States History Books
- Nixons Vice Presidents
- General United States History Books
- Colonial United States History Books
- Best Sellers In Reconstruction History Of The U.S
- U S President 2021
- Western State & Local United States History Books
- Midwest State & Local United States History Books

