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Ford's Theater: Selected Key Works Bunker, Gary L. From Rail-Splitter to Icon (Kent State University Press, 2001). Lincoln as depicted in illustrated periodicals of the Civil War period. Carwardine, Richard J. Lincoln: Profiles in Power (Longman, 2003). The latest single-volume biography. Cook, Robert. Civil War America: Making a Nation, 1848-1877 (Longman 2003). A good general history of the period. Diggins, John Patrick. On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History (Yale University Press, 2000). Donald, David Herbert. “We are Lincoln Men”: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends (Simon and Schuster, 2003). Also Donald’s Lincoln (Simon and Schuster, 1995), perhaps the best-written life of Lincoln. Guelzo, Allen C. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Eerdman’s 1999). Lincoln’s social and intellectual ideas. Maihafer, Harry, J. War of Words: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War Press (Brassey’s, 2001). Pinsker, Matthew. Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home (Oxford, 2003). Good local history. Long, E.B., with Barbara Long. The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861-1865 (Doubleday, 1971). Indispensable. Steers, Edward, Jr. Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (University Press of Kentucky, 2001). The best recent book on the assassination.
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