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In Lincoln’s Hand Contributors and Editors discuss Lincoln’s Writings and Read Commentary
In Lincoln’s Hand to be published 1/27/09.
Harold Holzer is co-chairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and author, co-author or editor of thirty-one books on Lincoln and the Civil War era, including the award-winning Lincoln at Cooper Union and most recently, Lincoln: President-Elect.
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Joshua Wolf Shenk is the author of Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness and the director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House at Washington College. His work has been published in Harper's Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, the Economist, and other publications, and in the national bestseller Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression. Click to visit his website.
In Lincoln’s Hand Contributors and Editors discuss Lincoln’s Writings and Read Commentary
Watch four short videos of Harold Holzer and Joshua Shenk, co-editors of In Lincoln’s Hand: His Original Manuscripts with Commentary by Distinguished Americans, as well as contributors Sam Waterston and William Safire discuss Lincoln’s writings and read their commentary on Lincoln’s documents. The book is the official publication of the Library of Congress Bicentennial Exhibition, “With Malice Toward None.”
In Lincoln’s Hand to be published 1/27/09.
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and in conjunction with the Library of Congress 2009 Bicentennial Exhibition, IN LINCOLN’S HAND offers an unprecedented look at perhaps our greatest president through the vivid images of his handwritten letters, speeches, and even childhood notebooks—many never before made available to the public.
Edited by leading Lincoln scholars Harold Holzer and Joshua Wolf Shenk, this companion volume offers a fresh and intimate perspective on a man whose thoughts and words continue to affect history. To underscore the resonance of Lincoln’s writings on contemporary culture, each manuscript is accompanied by a reflection on Lincoln by a prominent American from the arts, politics, literature, or entertainment.
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See "A Look Inside" at left for Table of Contents
Documents/Contributors:
"A Tendency to Melancholly" • Copybook verses • Adam Gopnik • Letter to Eliza Browning • George Saunders • Letter to John T. Stuart • Andrew Solomon • Letter to Mary Speed • E. L. Doctorow • Letter to Andrew Johnston, Including • Robert Pinsky • Letter to Mary Lincoln • Jennifer Fleischner • Fragment on Niagara Falls • Cynthia Ozick • Notes on the Practice of Law • Sandra Day O'Connor • Fragment on the Object of Government • Mario M. Cuomo • "A House Divided Against Itself" • Fragment on Dred Scott Decision • Walter Mosley • On Stephen Douglas • Michael Burlingame • Fragment on "The Higher Object of This Contest" • Lewis Lehrman • A Page from Lincoln-Douglas Debates Scrapbook • Richard J. Durbin • Letter to Jesse Fell, Including Autobiographical Sketch • Kathryn Harrison • Autobiographical Sketch for the Chicago Tribune • Douglas L. Wilson • Letter to George D. Prentice • Jonathan Alter • Farewell to Springfield • Sam Waterston • "We Cannot Escape History" • First Inaugural Address • William Safire • Letter to William H. Seward • President George H. W. Bush • Message to Congress • President George W. Bush • Proclamation Revoking Gen. Hunter's Emancipation Order • Frank J. Williams • Reply to Horace Greeley's Editorial • David W. Blight • Meditation on the Divine Will • President Jimmy Carter • Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation • John Hope Franklin • Two Telegrams to Gen. George B. McClellan • James M. McPherson • Letter to Fanny McCullough • Drew Gilpin Faust • "Let the Thing Be Pressed" • Letter to Gen. Joseph Hooker • Gabor Boritt • Letter to Mary Lincoln • Thomas Mallon • "Albany Letter" to Erastus Corning on Civil Liberties • David Herbert Donald • Verse on Lee's Invasion of the North • Newt Gingrich • Letter to Gen. George G. Meade • Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner • Letters to James Hackett • Liam Neeson • Letter to James C. Conkling • President Bill Clinton • Letter to Cpt. James M. Cutts, Jr. • Doris Kearns Goodwin • Gettysburg Address • Toni Morrison • Letter to Gov. Michael Hahn • Bliss Broyard • Letter to Albert Hodges • Ken Burns • Telegrams to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant • Conan O'Brien • "Blind Memorandum" • Philip Gourevitch • Letter to Eliza Gurney • John Updike • Second Inaugural Address • 1865 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sven Birkerts