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"A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era."-- Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review , this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American... Read Full Overview

Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history... Read Full Overview

In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner begins with Lincoln's youth in Indiana and Illinois and follows the trajectory of his career across an increasingly tense and... Read Full Overview