Lincoln's Humor and Other Essays

by Benjamin P. Thomas

Book Overview

This volume gathers the best previously unpublished and uncollected writings on Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln scholarship by one of his great biographers, Benjamin P. Thomas.

A skilled historian and a masterful storyteller himself, Thomas was widely regarded as the greatest Lincoln historian of his generation. With these essays, he combines historical depth with narrative grace in delineating Lincoln's qualities as a humorist, lawyer, and politician...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252073401
• ISBN13: 9780252073403
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.6"