FOR YOUR BOOKSHELF | Phillip Shaw Paludan's The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994) With this entry in the “American Presidency Series” of the University Press of Kansas on the crucial presidency of Abraham Lincoln, Philip Shaw Paludan (1938-2007) won the 1995 Lincoln Prize for the best book published the previous year on Lincoln and his era. Because of its historical depth, its breath of sources, its accessible narrative voice, and its judicious assessment, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln has become one of the most important, top-shelf, books ever published on Lincoln, his administration, and Lincoln’s executive leadership. Not a biography of Lincoln nor a historical interpretation of the middle decades of the nineteenth-century nor a military history of the Civil War years, this volume stays focused on the Lincoln’s public policies paying particular attention to both what Lincoln did and what Lincoln said. Across fifteen chapters and a C...
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