Conversations with Lincoln
Little-Known Stories from Those Who Met America's 16th President

Around the Globe in 52 Books [Prompt: A Biography of a Politician] A very personal and touching account of our 16th President, Conversations with Lincoln captures what the president was like from the personal accounts of Americans who visited and chatted with him. I never knew he had an open door poli......more

“No man living has a kinder heart than Abraham Lincoln….” So wrote journalist Noah Brooks, who knew Lincoln on an intimate level. Another contemporary described Lincoln as having a “native goodness” and “true nobility of character.” The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass agreed, writing the follo......more

This book helped revert my perspective of Lincoln as a great president back to where it was before I went through my "libertarian" phase of life. During my libertarian phase, I read a lot of history books from a Southern perspective. These books portrayed Lincoln as a tyrant who lead the "War of Nor......more

I’ve been using an article about Lincoln’s leadership l, written by Leidner, with my advanced US history students for a while, so when I saw his book, I bought it. Leidner strives to show the reader a cross section of Lincoln’s life using eyewitness accounts that are not well known. Leidner does that......more