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About Harold Holzer
See more books from this AuthorWilliam Seward, the former political rival Lincoln had chosen to be secretary of state, and several other cabinet members urged the president to give in to that demand in hopes that it would preserve the peace and dissuade other slave states — especially Virginia and Maryland, which surrounded th...
Feb 06 2009 | Read Full Review of In Lincoln's Hand: His Origin...In an engrossing narrative, Holzer (Lincoln at Cooper Union ), chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, painstakingly retraces Lincoln's few public statements and numerous private initiatives during this key period, revealing an astute political operator assessing the situation, organizin...
Jul 28 2008 | Read Full Review of In Lincoln's Hand: His Origin...Holzer, who won a prize for his analysis of Lincolnâs 1860 speech at Cooper Union, now examines the Emancipation Proclamation.
Dec 12 2011 | Read Full Review of In Lincoln's Hand: His Origin...This award-winning anthology of letters written to President Lincoln throws light on the popular mood of the Civil War period.
| Read Full Review of In Lincoln's Hand: His Origin...Few people know more about Abraham Lincoln than Holzer (editor of Lincoln the Writer ;
| Read Full Review of In Lincoln's Hand: His Origin...Lincoln historian Holzer (Father Abraham: Lincoln and His Sons) offers a cogent young readers' companion to Steven Spielberg's film, Lincoln.
Dec 24 2012 | Read Full Review of In Lincoln's Hand: His Origin...This illustrated volume, companion to the Library of Congress Bicentennial Exhibition, collects Lincolns' letters, speeches, pages from childhood notebooks, ruminations and reactions, including his inaugural addresses, his 1859 autobiographical sketch and his famous reply to a pre-Emancipation Pr...
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