Lincoln Reconsidered

A “brilliant” look at America’s sixteenth president by the New York Times –bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln ( American Historical Review ). First published in 1956 and revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Lincoln Reconsidered is a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship. In a dozen eloquent, witty, and incisive essays, the author of the definitive biography of Abraham Lincoln offers a fresh perspective on topics previously shrouded in myth and hagiography and bring