Despite the most meager of formal educations, Lincoln had a tremendous intellectual curiosity that drove him into the circle of Enlightenment philosophy and dem

This biography of the sixteenth president explores Lincoln's life and political career along with insights into his philosophy, religious views, and moral chara

Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president” as well as “the first who rose above the prejudice of his times an

Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosi

"Von Drehle has chosen a critical year ('the most eventful year in American history' and the year Lincoln rose to greatness), done his homework, and written a s