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Lincoln President-Elect will be released on October 20, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Oct 20, 2009
Lincoln President-Elect is now available in Trade Paperback
Oct 20, 2009
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Harold Holzer's Books
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Lincoln President-ElectHarold Holzer examines the months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when he decided there would be no compromise on slavery or secession.Read More -
Lincoln at Cooper UnionLincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an extraordinary appeal by the western...Read More
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Harold Holzer Revealed
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Excelsior
Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain?
A. Fred C. Dobbs
Q. What is your greatest achievement?
A. Our children
Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
A. Playing with my grandchild
Q. What do you regret most?
A. Never winning any political campaign on which i served as a press secretary
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PublishersWeekly.com, February 3, 2012
...Spin by Catherine McKenzie (HarperCollins, $15; ISBN 978-0-06-211535-5). Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory by Harold Holzer (Harvard Univ., $24.95; ISBN 978-0-674-06440-9). The Annotated Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson,...
PB Pulse, September 4, 2011
...was issued in book form in 1888. This one-volume abridgment of the four-volume original has been edited by Harold Holzer and offers year-by- year introductions by historians such as James M. McPherson. The Modern Library has reset the type, but retained...
New York Post, July 2, 2011
...Not many people pick their passions out of a hat, but Harold Holzer did. The award-winning historian whos written, co-written or edited 41 books about Lincoln and the Civil War remembers how his fifth-grade teacher in Little Neck, Queens, had her pupils...
Military Times, June 2, 2011
...history. • Hearts Touched by Fire: the Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War edited by Harold Holzer, Modern Library, 1,192 pages, $35. The original 1883 four-volume collection of firsthand accounts by battle leaders is a mere thousand pages in...
Roanoke Times, May 30, 2011
...LINCOLN ON WAR: Our Greatest Commander-In-Chief Speaks to America By Harold Holzer. Algonquin Books. 304 pages. $24.95 Reviewed by Michael L. Ramsey MICHAEL L. RAMSEY is president of the Roanoke Public Library Foundation. President Abraham...
Durham Herald-Sun, May 28, 2011
...Knopf, 452 pages, $32.50, hardcover. n "Lincoln On War: Our Greatest Commander-In-Chief Speaks to America" edited by Harold Holzer. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill published Lincoln expert Holzer's collection of Lincoln comments on war issues. 304 pages,...
Atlanta Journal And Constitution, May 27, 2011
...and public relations failure. "Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," Harold Holzer, editor; Modern Library; 1,230 pages; $38 In 1888, Civil War history took a huge step forward with publication of four volumes by key...
, August 5, 2011
...Sifton noted Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art; Adam Weinberg, director of the Whitney; and Harold Holzer, a vice president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Unlike, the Waverly, this place is affordable. Compare the Waverly Inn, who has...
An American Editor, June 8, 2011
...by Michael Burleigh Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War edited by Harold Holzer Death and a Maiden: Infanticide and the Tragical History of Grethe Schmidt by William David Myers Eichmann's Jews by Doron Rabinovici...
The Vicious Babushka, May 26, 2011
...for a recent Cezanne exhibition and a current one on 19th century art were withheld by Russia, spokesman Harold Holzer said Wednesday. The museum has warned Russian museums that it won't send costumes for a planned touring exhibition on French fashion...
The Fourth Musketeer, May 23, 2011
...about him than any other figure in American history. This new biography for young people by Lincoln expert Harold Holzer is a worthwhile addition to the pantheon of Lincoln books, and could be enjoyed by young people and adults alike. The outlines of...
The Fourth Musketeer, May 23, 2011
...about him than any other figure in American history. This new biography for young people by Lincoln expert Harold Holzer is a worthwhile addition to the pantheon of Lincoln books, and could be enjoyed by young people and adults alike. The outlines of...
History Net - From the World's Largest History Mag, May 20, 2011
...War StoriesIt's time to remember good Civil War lit—and close the door on the bad stuff Several months ago, literary critic Adam Kirsch—full disclosure: he's my son-in-law—published an essay in the New York Times voicing concern about recent...
TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog, May 6, 2011
...1884 to 1887. James M. McPherson, James L. Robertson Jr., Stephen W. Sears, Craig L. Symonds and Harold Holzer are the editors. The Union War by Gary W. Gallagher looks at the importance of the idea of Union to the North and how this motivated them...
