Labyrinth Books, James McPherson 3/11/09
Please join us for a book talk and celebration with James McPherson on the occasion of the publication of his new biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Marking the two-hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this marvelous short biography by a leading historian offers an illuminating portrait of one of the giants in the American story.
Best-selling author James M. McPherson follows the son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks from his early years in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, to his highly successful law career, his marriage to Mary Todd, and his one term in Congress. We witness his leadership of the Republican anti-slavery movement, his famous debates with Stephen A. Douglas (a long acquaintance and former rival for the hand of Mary Todd), and his emergence as a candidate for president in 1860. Following Lincoln's election to the presidency, McPherson describes his masterful role as Commander in Chief during the Civil War, the writing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and his assassination by John Wilkes Booth.
The book also discusses his lasting legacy and why he remains a quintessential American hero two hundred years after his birth.
James McPherson is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He has published numerous volumes on the Civil War, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, Crossroads of Freedom (which was a New York Times bestseller), Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, which won the Lincoln Prize.
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
Princeton NJ 08542
609.497.1600
Location: Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Date/Time: 2009-03-11 at 5:30 pm - 2009-03-11 at 7:00 pm
Category: Other
History/AMS Department