I have a lot of Abraham Lincoln books. Too many for my shelves, it seems. While I read a dozen (or two) books about our 16th President every year, the fact remains that my collection outpaces my available time. Still, it remains a joy.
I’ve previously listed the Lincoln books I acquired in 2013. In this post I’ll list the books I’ve acquired in the first half of this year. And yes, I know that June still has a couple of weeks to go, but I’ve put myself on a moratorium (of sorts), at least until the end of the month. Check out the list below.
David J. Kent is currently working on a book about Abraham Lincoln’s interest in science and technology. He is also the author of Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity and a soon-to-be-released ebook on Tesla and Renewable Energy.
Here’s the list!
| Ambrose, Stephen E. | Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 | 2000 |
| Bacon, Benjamin W. | Sinews of War: How Technology, Industry, and Transportation Won the Civil War | 1997 |
| Barton, William E. | Abraham Lincoln And His Books | 1920 |
| Borritt, Gabor (ed) | The Gettysburg Nobody Knows | 1999 |
| Boritt, Gabor S. (ed) | Lincoln The War President | 1992 |
| Denenberg, Barry | Lincoln Shot: A President’s Life Remembered | 2008 |
| Fletcher, George P. | Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy | 2001 |
| Gary, Ralph | Following in Lincoln’s Footsteps: A Complete Annotated Reference to Hundreds of Historical Sites Visited by Abraham Lincoln | 2001 |
| Goodheart, Adam | 1861: The Civil War Awakening | 2011 |
| Grant, Ulysses S. | Personal Memoirs | 1999 |
| Haydon, F. Stansbury | Military Ballooning during the Early Civil War | 2000 |
| Herdon, William H. and Weik, Jesse William | Herndon’s Life of Lincoln | 1942 |
| Holzer, Harold | Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America | 2012 |
| Katcher, Philip | The Civil War Day By Day | 201 |
| Martin, Iain C. | Worthy of Their Esteem: The Timeless Words and Sage Advice of Abraham Lincoln, America’s Greatest President | 2009 |
| Miller, Richard Lawrence | Lincoln and his World: Prairie Politician 1834-1842 | 2008 |
| Mills, Eric | Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War | 1996 |
| Poleskie, Stephen | The Balloonist: The Story of T.S.C. Lowe – Inventor, Scientist, Magician, and Father of the U.S. Air Force | 2007 |
| Randall, J.G. | Mr. Lincoln | 1957 |
| Ross, Charles | Trial by Fire: Science, Technology and the Civil War | 2000 |
| Sandburg, Carl | Abe Lincoln Grows Up | 1956 |
| Stashower, Daniel | The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War | 2013 |
| Stoddard, William O. | Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln’s Secretary | 2000 |
| Thomas, Benjamin P. | Lincoln’s New Salem | 1987 |
| Thompson, Frank | Abraham Lincoln: Twentieth Century Portrayals | 1999 |
| Waugh, John C. | One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln’s Road to the Civil War | 2007 |
| Widmer, Ted (Ed) | The New York Times Disunion | 2013 |
| Wilson, Douglas L. | Lincoln before Washington: New Perspectives on the Illinois Years | 1997 |
| Wilson, Douglas L. | Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words | 2006 |
| Zeitz, Joshua | Lincoln’s Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln’s Image | 2014 |
| Lincoln Takes Norfolk | 1983 |
Quite the collection David! Have you read Lincoln’s Boys yet? If so, what’d you think? It’s next on my list.
Thanks, Brian. I have read Lincoln’s Boys. Here’s my review of it on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/890409857?book_show_action=false
Great, I’ll check it out David, thanks. I see where moving along in similar fashions with our groups’ social media outreach. I just followed your new twitter account, check out @LincolnGroupBos when you get a chance.
Hi Brian. Thanks for giving me your group’s Twitter handle. I’ve just started following you on our account. Also, it seems we still need to do the updating on our website to add you to our list of Lincoln groups. I had provided the information a while ago but it looks like it hasn’t yet been added. There is a meeting tonight so I’ll remind them it needs to be done (plus updating our new leadership list).