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Front: a formal dinner; back: “Political Quixotism, the DiplomaticHercules attacking the Political Hydra,” an 1833 cartoon lam-pooning President Jackson’s obsession with the Second Bank ofthe United States. (Library of Congress)

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Becky Libourel DiamondThe Thousand Dollar DinnerAmerica’s First Great Cookery Challenge

A Lavish Seventeen-Course Meal that Launched a New Age of American Dining

In 1851, fifteen wealthy New Yorkers wanted to show agroup of Philadelphia friends just how impressive a mealcould be and took them to Delmonico’s, New York’s finestrestaurant. They asked Lorenzo Delmonico to “astonish ourQuaker City friends with the sumptuousness of our feast,”and assured him that money was no object, as the honor ofNew York was at stake. They were treated to a magnificentbanquet, enjoyed by all. However, not to be outdone, thePhiladelphia men invited the New Yorkers to a meal pre-pared by James W. Parkinson in their city. In what becameknown as the “Thousand Dollar Dinner,” Parkinson suc-cessfully rose to the challenge, creating a seventeen-courseextravaganza featuring fresh salmon, baked rockfish,braised pigeon, turtle steaks, spring lamb, out-of-seasonfruits and vegetables, and desserts, all paired with rarewines and liquors. Midway through the twelve-hour meal,the New Yorkers declared Philadelphia the winner of theircompetition, and at several times stood in ovation toacknowledge the chef ’s mastery. In The Thousand DollarDinner: America’s First Great Cookery Challenge, researchhistorian Becky Libourel Diamond presents the entire sev-enteen-course meal, course by course, explaining each dishand its history. A gastronomic turning point, Parkinson’sluxurious meal helped launch the era of grand banquets ofthe gilded age and established a new level of American culi-nary arts to rival those of Europe.

Price: $26.00Pages: 240 Trim: 6 x 9Illus: 20 b/wFormat: Jacketed HardbackISBN: 978-1-59416-231-2American HistoryWorld RightsOctober 2015

BECKY LIBOUREL DIAMOND is a journalist and research histo-rian who specializes in reconstructing eighteenth- andnineteenth-century American recipes. She is the author ofMrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School,also available from Westholme Publishing.

“Drenched in Champagne and Cognac, The ThousandDollar Dinner is a delicious taste of our country’s firstrestaurant revolution. An equally light and luxurious read,this book will leave every food fanatic and history buffhungry for more.”—Maureen Petrosky, author of The WineClub and NBC Today Show Lifestyle Expert

“From the first chapter to the last, The Thousand DollarDinner captivates readers with a sumptuous feast thatwould top any modern-day event. In this well-researchedbook, Diamond shows how American cuisine was sophisti-cated, elegant, and show stopping.”—Walter Staib, proprietor of City Tavern and EmmyAward–winning host of PBS’s A Taste of History

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Paul KahanThe Bank WarAndrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American FinanceThe Bitter Battle over the Charter of the Second Bank of the United States and ItsLasting Impact on the American Economy

Late one night in July 1832, Martin Van Buren rushed tothe White House where he found an ailing PresidentAndrew Jackson weakened but resolute. Thundering againsthis political antagonists, Jackson bellowed: “The Bank, Mr.Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I shall kill it!” Withthose famous words, Jackson formally declared “war”against the Second Bank of the United States and its presi-dent Nicholas Biddle. The Bank of the United States, whichheld the majority of Federal monies, had been establishedas a means of centralizing and stabilizing American curren-cy and the economy, particularly during the country’s vul-nerable early years. Jackson and his allies viewed the bankas both elitist and a threat to states’ rights. Throughout hisfirst term, Jackson had attacked the bank viciously butfailed to take action against the institution. Congress’ deci-sion to recharter the bank forced Jackson to either makegood on his rhetoric and veto the recharter or sign therecharter bill and be condemned as a hypocrite.

In The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, andthe Fight for American Finance, historian Paul Kahanexplores one of the most important and dramatic events inAmerican political and economic history, from the idea ofcentralized banking and the First Bank of the United Statesto Jackson’s triumph, the era of “free banking,” and the cre-ation of the Federal Reserve System. Relying on a range ofprimary and secondary source material, the book alsoshows how the Bank War was a manifestation of thedebates that were sparked at the ConstitutionalConvention—the role of the executive branch and the roleof the federal government in American society—debatesthat endure to this day as philosophical differences thatoften divide the United States.

Price: $28.00Pages: 288 Trim: 6 x 9Illus: 15 b/wFormat: Jacketed HardbackISBN: 978-1-59416-234-3American HistoryWorld RightsDecember 2015

PAUL KAHAN is a lecturer in history at Ohlone College inFremont, California. He received his PhD in history fromTemple University and is the author of Eastern StatePenitentiary: A History, a national finalist for the AmericanAssociation of State and Local History book award.


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William S. KingTill the Dark Angel ComesAbolitionism and the Road to the Second American RevolutionThe Transformation of the Abolitionist Movement from Peaceful Demonstration toRadical Confrontation as Embodied in John Brown

Price: $29.95Pages: 360 Trim: 6 x 9Illus: 25 b/wFormat: Jacketed HardbackISBN: 978-1-59416-238-1American HistoryWorld RightsNovember 2015

Establishing himself as a fresh and important voice in thehistory of African American emancipation, William S. Kingprovides a critical introduction to the lead-up to the CivilWar. A skilled and judicious chronicler, King seamlesslyweaves multiple and seemingly disparate threads, includingearly nineteenth-century Revivalism, the emergence of theRepublic of Texas, the fugitive slave laws—and even theexplosion of a cannon aboard the U.S.S. Princeton in1844—to explain how the opposition to slavery in Americachanged from producing speeches and pamphlets toembracing the reality that slavery could be eradicated onlythrough armed conflict. By tracing this transformationthrough the life of John Brown, King provides an entirelynew assessment of this enigmatic figure who was charac-terized as a “mad man” in the wake of his butchering ofproslavery settlers in Kansas and the inept raid on HarpersFerry, Virginia. King puts these actions in context toexplain the paradox of Brown’s legacy. On one hand he wasvilified as an unstable threat to American democracy or afanatical sideshow to the history of the Civil War, while onthe other he was an inspiration to the oppressed, a manwho garnered the indomitable Harriet Tubman’s commit-ment to the righteousness of his endeavor.

Elegantly written with a command of period sources, Tillthe Dark Angel Comes: Abolitionism and the Road to theSecond American Revolution is the story of interracialopposition to slavery, the important debates among freeblacks as to their future in America, and the argumentsand compromises at the highest levels of government. Herewe encounter many personalities of the time, some wellknown, such as Frederick Douglass, William LloydGarrison, and John C. Calhoun, and others less so, but noless important—Martin Delany, Henry Highland Garnet,and Elijah Lovejoy.

WILLIAM S. KING is an independent scholar and commercialdriver specializing in the transport of oversized industrialmaterials. He is the author of the award-winning To RaiseUp a Nation: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and theMaking of a Free Country, named a Choice OutstandingAcademic Title of 2014, also available from WestholmePublishing.


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DON GLICKSTEIN, an award-winning journalist, has writtenfor the Delaware State News, the Buffalo Courier-Express,New Bedford Standard-Times, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer,before being appointed a political press secretary. He laterbecame manager for the nation’s largest consumer-governedhealthcare system. His history writing has appeared in theJournal of the American Revolution, Columbia, WashingtonMagazine, and historylink.org.

Although most people think the American Revolutionended with the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, onOctober 19, 1781, it did not. The war spread around theworld, and exhausted men kept fighting—from the Arcticto Arkansas, from India and Ceylon to Schenectady andSouth America—while others labored to achieve a finaldiplomatic resolution.

After Cornwallis’s unexpected loss, George III vowedrevenge, while Washington planned his next campaign.Spain, which France had lured into the war, insisted therewould be no peace without seizing British-held Gibraltar.Yet the war had spun out of control long before Yorktown.Native Americans and Loyalists continued joint operationsagainst land-hungry rebel settlers from New York to theMississippi Valley. African American slaves sought freedomwith the British. Soon, Britain seized the initiative againwith a decisive naval victory in the Caribbean against theComte de Grasse, the French hero of Yorktown.

In After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for AmericanIndependence, Don Glickstein tells the engrossing story ofthis uncertain and violent time, from the remarkableAmerican and French success in Virginia to the conclusionof the fighting—in India—and then to the last British sol-diers leaving America more than two years after Yorktown.Readers will learn about the people—their humor, frustra-tion, fatigue, incredulity, worries; their shock at the savageterrorism each side inflicted; and their surprise at unexpect-ed grace and generosity. Based on an extraordinary range ofprimary sources, the story encompasses a fascinating cast ofcharacters: a French captain who destroyed a British tradingpost, but left supplies for Indians to help them through aharsh winter, an American Loyalist releasing a capturedSpanish woman in hopes that his act of kindness will resultin a prisoner exchange, a Native American leader caught“between two hells” of a fickle ally and a greedy enemy, andthe only general to surrender to both George Washingtonand Napoleon Bonaparte. Finally, the author asks the ques-tion we face today: How do you end a war that doesn’t wantto end?

Don GlicksteinAfter YorktownThe Final Struggle for American IndependenceAfter the Humiliating Defeat at Yorktown in 1781, George III Vowed to Keep Fighting theRebels and Their Allies Around the World, Holding a New Nation in the Balance

Price: $29.95Pages: 400 Trim: 6 x 9Illus: 40 b/w, mapsFormat: Jacketed HardbackISBN: 978-1-59416-233-6American HistoryWorld RightsNovember 2015


In the winter of 1861, as the secession crisis came to a head,an obscure military engineer, Charles Pomeroy Stone,emerged as the rallying point for the defense ofWashington, D.C. against rebel attack. He was protector ofthe newly elected president and right-hand man of thearmy’s commanding general, General Winfield Scott, underwhom he had served with distinction during theMexican–American War. Nevertheless, with in a year, thissame hero sat in a military prison accused of incompetenceand possible treason.

Like other Union officers, Stone had the misfortune torun afoul of radical politicians in the nation’s capital whosought to control the war effort by undermining the profes-sional military establishment. Their weapon, the JointCommittee on the Conduct of the War, applied a litmus testof commitment to abolition, loyalty to the RepublicanParty and battlefield success for the retention and promo-tion of army commanders. Stone, a Democrat who did notsee the conflict as a crusade against slavery, and who lost hisonly battle, failed on all counts.

Readers of Civil War history know Stone best for his mis-treatment at the hands of the Joint Committee. When hisname appears, it is almost always in connection with thebattle at Ball’s Bluff, Virginia, during which a close associateof Lincoln’s was killed, and its aftermath. His story, howev-er, goes far beyond that engagement. In The ExtraordinaryLife of Charles Pomeroy Stone: Soldier, Surveyor, Pasha,Engineer that ranges from the Halls of Montezuma to GoldRush California, and from the pyramids of Egypt to thefoot of the Statue of Liberty, historian Blaine Lamb bringsto light the many facets of Stone’s remarkable life andcareer. He weaves into the narrative such characters asUlysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, AbrahamLincoln, Winfield Scott, Alexander von Humboldt,Thaddeus Lowe, Chinese Gordon, Khedive Ismail, andFrederic Auguste Bartholdi. But the center of this tale ofnineteenth-century adventure, exploration, war, andintrigue remains Stone himself, a man of honor, steadfastloyalty, and tragic innocence.

Blaine LambThe Extraordinary Life of Charles Pomeroy StoneSoldier, Surveyor, Pasha, Engineer

Civil War Hero and Scapegoat, Surveyor of Mexico, General of the Egyptian Army, andBuilder of the Statue of Liberty’s Pedestal

Price: $29.95Pages: 360 Trim: 6 x 9Illus: 10 b/w, mapsFormat: Jacketed HardbackISBN: 978-1-59416-232-9Military HistoryWorld RightsNovember 2015

BLAINE LAMB received his PhD in history from ArizonaState University. An archivist for the state of California, hedirected the completion of the Golden State Museum, nowthe California Museum, in Sacramento. At the time of hisretirement, he was the Chief of the Archaeology, Historyand Museums Division of California State Parks. His publi-cations include articles in California History, WesternHistorical Quarterly, and Journal of America’s Military Past.

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Price: $26.00Pages: 224 Trim: 6 x 9Illus: 15 b/wFormat: Jacketed HardbackISBN: 978-1-59416-236-7BiographyWorld RightsNovember 2015

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia was the sec-ond of the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife,the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Long recognized byhistorians as the undisputed “beauty” of the family, Tatianawas acknowledged for her poise, her elegance, and herinnate dignity within her own family. Helen Azar, translatorof the diaries of Olga Romanov, and Nicholas B. A.Nicholson, Russian Imperial historian, have joined togetherto present a truly comprehensive picture of this extraordi-narily gifted, complex, and intelligent woman in her ownwords. Tatiana Romanov, Daughter of the Last Tsar: Diariesand Letters, 1913–1918, presents translations of materialnever before published in Russian or in English, as well asmaterials never published in their entirety in the West.

The brisk, modern prose of Tatiana’s diary entries revealsthe character of a young woman who was far more than thesheltered imperial beauty as she previously has been por-trayed. While many historians and writers describe her as acold, haughty, and distant aristocrat, this book showsinstead a remarkably down-to-earth and humorous youngwoman, full of life and compassion. A detail-oriented andobservant participant in some of the most important his-torical events of the early twentieth century, she left first-hand descriptions of the tercentenary celebrations of theHouse of Romanov, the early years of Russia’s involvementin World War I, and the road to her family’s final days inSiberian exile. Her writings reveal extraordinary details pre-viously unknown or unacknowledged. Lavishly annotatedfor the benefit of the nonspecialist reader, this book is notonly a reevaluation of Tatiana’s role as more than just oneof four sisters, but also a valuable reference on Russia, theFirst World War, the Russian Revolution, and the peopleclosest to the Grand Duchess and her family.

HELEN AZAR is a librarian at the Free Library ofPhiladelphia. She has translated and published severalbooks based on the writings of the members of the lastRussian imperial family, including The Diary of OlgaRomanov, also available from Westholme Publishing.

NICHOLAS B. A. NICHOLSON is a noted specialist in Russianfine and decorative arts. He has been an art advisor andresearcher for private collectors, museums, and other insti-tutions. An expert on the Russian Imperial Court, he pub-lishes and lectures frequently on imperial topics.

Helen Azar and Nicholas B. A. Nicholson

Tatiana Romanov, Daughter of the Last TsarDiaries and Letters, 1913–1918Translated for the First Time in English with Annotations by a Leading Expert, theRomanov Family’s Final Years Through the Writings of the Second Oldest Daughter

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Price: $28.00Pages: 256 Trim: 6 x 9Illus: 25 b/wFormat: Jacketed HardbackISBN: 978-1-59416-235-0Military HistoryWorld RightsNovember 2015

Colonel Ollie W. Reed was commanding officer of the175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division, when he was mor-tally wounded on July 30, 1944, in Villebaudon, France. Atthe time of his death, he was unaware that his son,Lieutenant Ollie W. “Bud” Reed, Jr., a 1942 graduate of WestPoint, had been killed in his second day of combat in Italyon July 5, 1944. They are buried alongside one another inthe Normandy American Cemetery. Of the four hundredthousand Americans who lost their lives in World War II,Ollie and Bud Reed are the only father and son to perishwhile fighting for their country. In Manhattan, Kansas,Bud’s wife, Laura, and their infant son lived with his moth-er, Mildred Reed. On a warm August 1944 afternoon, anofficial car arrived at the Reeds’ residence to inform Laurathat her husband had been killed in combat. In disbelief,the young widow held on to her mother-in-law; severalhours later, another official car arrived bearing the over-whelming news that Mildred Reed too had lost her husbandin battle. In Two Gold Stars: A World War II Story of Loveand Sacrifice, writer, producer, and photographer DennisWhitehead tells the story of an exemplary Midwestern fam-ily who dedicated their lives to serving in the armed forcesat a time when Americans had faith in their political lead-ers, institutions, and the essential goodness of people.Relying on family letters, photographs, interviews, andMildred Reed’s remarkable memoir written for her grand-children, the author paints a vivid and moving portrait ofthe Reeds, from the time Ollie, Sr. and Mildred first met, hisservice in the Mexican Punitive Mission, World War I, andthe Philippines; the births of their sons, Ollie, Jr., and Ted;and the ultimate hardship of women being separated fromtheir husbands only to share in a common loss.

DENNIS WHITEHEAD is a writer, photographer, and producer.Two Gold Stars comes from his work on the PBS documen-tary, Hallowed Grounds, about overseas American militarycemeteries. A graduate of the Ohio University, he workedfor the Associated Press in New York and Los Angeles,before coming to Washington, DC, as a photojournalist.

Dennis Whitehead

Two Gold StarsA World War II Story of Love and SacrificeA Chance Encounter in a Military Cemetery in France, and the Extraordinary AmericanFamily It Revealed

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United States Congress, with a new introduction by Bill Yenne The Sand Creek MassacreThe Official 1865 Report with James P. Beckwourth’s Additional TestimonyAn Important Primary Source of One of the Most Significant Atrocities in the IndianWars with Unique Contemporary Annotations

Price: $18.95Pages: 176 Trim: 5.5 x 8.5Illus: 6 b/w, mapFormat: Trade PaperbackISBN: 978-1-59416-237-4Military HistoryWorld RightsNovember 2015

On the morning of November 29, 1864, Colorado state cav-alry under the command of Col. John Chivington attackeda peaceful encampment of mostly Cheyenne Indians alongthe Sand Creek in Colorado, slaughtering perhaps as manyas 160 people, mostly women and children. It was one ofthe most egregious atrocities of the Indian Wars. Even withthe country embroiled in a Civil War, the gravity of the sit-uation can be gauged by the fact that within six weeks ofthe killings, a Joint Committee of Congress conducted apublic hearing. Congress vilified Chivington in summariz-ing his cowardly and racist attack in their published report:“Wearing the uniform of the United States, which shouldbe the emblem of justice and humanity . . . he deliberatelyplanned and executed a foul and dastardly massacre.” TheSand Creek Massacre: The Official 1865 Report contains afacsimile of the “Report of the Joint Committee on theConduct of the War: Massacre of the Cheyenne Indians”along with unique annotations made by a reader at the timeand the attached typescript testimony of the AfricanAmerican pioneer James P. Beckwourth, in which herecounts the atrocity. This edition is introduced by BillYenne. who places the Sand Creek Massacre in contextwithin the Civil War and Indian Wars and provides biogra-phical information about the main persons involved.

BILL YENNE is the author of many books of history andpopular culture, including Indian Wars: The Campaign forthe American West and Sitting Bull, the acclaimed biographyof the Lakota leader, both available from WestholmePublishing.


Charles Raymond BeazleyJohn and Sebastian CabotThe Discovery of North AmericaA Classic in the History of Exploration, a Judicious Account of the Role of the Cabots inthe Discovery of the New World

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Price: $19.95Pages: 320 Trim: 7.5 x 5Illus: 3 b/wFormat: Trade PaperbackISBN: 978-1-59416-239-8World HistoryWorld RightsOctober 2015

John Cabot, Giovanni Caboto in his native Italian, led anexpedition to the New World in 1497 on behalf of KingHenry VII of England. He is considered the first Europeanto explore North America since the Viking voyages fivehundred years earlier. Although Cabot’s exact landfall onhis first voyage is not known—it could have been NovaScotia, Newfoundland, or even Maine—his claim forEngland to this territory countered the Spanish andPortuguese explorations to the south, and changed worldhistory. Cabot made three round trips between Bristol,England, and North America, and later, his son, Sebastian,made two similar voyages. John and Sebastian Cabot: TheDiscovery of North America by historian Sir CharlesRaymond Beazley was first published in 1898. Its enduringvalue in addition to its lucid, well-balanced, and researchednarrative is the author’s detailed history of prior voyages tothe North American continent, including those from Chinaand the Pacific Islands as well as those from the realms ofmythology. The author also includes all extant references tothe Cabots in historical documents.

SIR CHARLES RAYMOND BEAZLEY (1868–1955) was a fellowof Merton College, Oxford, and chair of history at theUniversity of Birmingham. He is the author of a number ofhistories, including Prince Henry the Navigator and TheDawn of Modern Geography.


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Brian DemingBoston and the Dawn of American Independence

The Remarkable Story of How a Colonial City Became the Hotbed of Rebellion

“This readable book makes no claim that it is the one source thattells Boston’s full story, but it is fair to say that it does present amore complete history. . . . It is a book that will appeal to generalreaders. . . . Recommended.”—Choice

In 1760, no one could imagine the American colonies revoltingagainst Great Britain. The colonists lived well. Land was cheap, wageswere good, opportunities abounded. While many colonists had beenin the New World for generations, they identified with Britain, andEngland was still “home.” Yet in the space of just fifteen years thesesturdy bonds snapped. Boston—a town of just 16,000—lit the firefor American Independence. Brian Deming explains how and why inhis lucid, lively, and deeply researched history.

Price: $24.95 • ISBN: 978-1-59416-240-4 • Pages: 520 • Trim: 6 x 9Illus: 35 b/w • Format: Trade Paperback • American History • World RightsOctober 2015

Richard BresslerFrederick IIThe Wonder of the WorldA Medieval Ruler Known for Religious Tolerance and a Passion for Science

“While many historians continue to abandon the field of popularhistory, focusing instead on the scholarly monograph, journal arti-cle, and textbook, it is to be hoped that the void is filled by books ofa quality equal to this one.”—The Medieval Review

One of the most remarkable personalities of the Middle Ages, HolyRoman Emperor Frederick II ruled a kingdom extending fromsouthern Denmark to Sicily, from modern Belgium to Bohemia.Frederick was a polymath with interests ranging from sculpture,architecture, and poetry to mathematics and science, earning himadmiration from his contemporaries who called him Stupor mundi,“Wonder of the World.” Based on the latest scholarship and writtenfor the general reader this book provides the complete story of thiscomplex and fascinating man.

Price: $18.95 • ISBN: 978-1-59416-241-1 • Pages: 224 • Trim: 6 x 9 Illus: 31 b/w • Format: Trade Paperback • Medieval History • World RightsOctober 2015


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Cordelia Frances BiddleSaint KatharineThe Life of Katharine DrexelThe Inspiring Story of an Heiress Who Devoted Her Life to America’s Dispossessed

“Powerful and profoundly moving, Saint Katharine is a book of richand lively scholarship and of deeply felt devotion. You will not beable to put it down.” —Donald Spoto, author of Reluctant Saint:The Life of Francis of Assisi

“Biddle is a scrupulous researcher, but maintains a refreshinglylucid, readable style.”—Publishers Weekly

In Saint Katharine: The Life of Katharine Drexel, Cordelia FrancesBiddle recounts the extraordinary story of a Gilded Age luminarywho professed vows and became a selfless worker for the welfare andrights of American Indians and African Americans. An indefatigablechampion of justice and parity, she devoted herself and her inheri-tance to building much-needed schools in the South, Midwest, andSouthwest, despite threats from the Ku Klux Klan and others.Mother Katharine died in 1955 and was canonized in 2000.

Price: $18.95 • ISBN: 978-1-59416-242-8 • Pages: 288 • Trim: 6 x 9Illus: 20 b/w • Format: Trade Paperback • Biography • World RightsSeptember 2015

Michael BurkheimerLincoln’s Christianity

The Changing Role of Faith in the Life of the Sixteenth President of the United States

“How do we reconcile the young religious skeptic with the maturepresident who so profoundly invested the Civil War with religioussignificance? Lincoln’s religious views—difficult to recover, interpret,and disentangle from past and present biases—are the subject of thisbrief survey.”—Journal of American History

Michael Burkhimer examines the history of the president’s interac-tion with religion—accounts from those who knew him, his own let-ters and writings, the books he read—to reveal a man who did notbelieve in orthodox Christian precepts (and might have had a hardtime getting elected today) yet, by his example, was a person andpresident who most truly embodied Christian teachings.

Price: $18.95 • ISBN: 978-1-59416-243-5 • Pages: 224 • Trim: 6 x 9 Illus: 6 b/w • Format: Trade Paperback • American History • World RightsOctober 2015


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