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Abraham Lincoln Birthday Bicentennial 1809-2009 Reading List

You may reserve any of these titles by placing holds at www.dixonpubliclibrary.org and login to your Dixon Public Library Patron Account. To use this feature, you will need a PIN number and Alternate ID Number. Please contact the library if you do not already have these set-up.  For more info on reserving a book go to:  Request (Place a Hold) on an item in the Public Access Catalog (PAC)

You may also place holds by stopping in or calling the Dixon Public Library at 1-815-284-7261 and the staff will place holds for you.

Biography

bullet A. Lincoln:  A Biography, by Ronald C. White
bullet Abraham Lincoln, by Thomas Keneally
bullet Abraham Lincoln’s Extraordinary Era:  The Man & His Times, by K. M. Kostyal
bullet The Abraham Lincoln Companion:  A Celebration of His Life & Times Through Rembrances, Poems, Songs, & Tributes; includes important speeches, writings, and a chronology
bullet The Lincoln Enigma:  Changing Faces of an American Icon, by Gabor Boritt
   

Civil War & Presidency

bullet Team of Rivals:  The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
bullet President Lincoln:  The Duty of a Statesman, by William Lee Miller
bullet Lincoln’s War:  The Untold Story of America’s Greatest President as Commander in Chief, by Geoffrey Perret
bullet 1864:  Lincoln at the Gates of History, by Charles Bracelen Flood
bullet Tried by War:  Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, by James McPherson
   

Speeches

bullet Lincoln’s Sword:  The Presidency & the Power of Words, by Douglas Wilson
bullet The Gettysburg Address and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America; inscribed & illustrated by Sam Fink
bullet Lincoln’s Greatest Speech:  The Second Inaugural, by Ronald C. White
bullet Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation:  The End of Slavery in America, by Allen Guelzo
bullet Lincoln at Gettysburg:  The Words That Remade America, by Garry Wills
bullet Lincoln at Peoria:  The Turning Point, by Lewis Lehrman
bullet Lincoln at Cooper Union:  The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, by Harold Holzer
   

Family

bullet House of Abraham:  Lincoln & the Todds, Divided by War, by Stephen Berry
bullet Mary Todd Lincoln:  A Biography, by Jean Baker
bullet Mary Todd Lincoln:  A Biography, by Jean Baker
 

 

Place in History

bullet Looking for Lincoln:  The Making of an American Icon, by Philip & Peter Kunhardt
bullet Lincoln Legends:  Myths, Hoaxes, & Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President, by Edward Steers
bullet Summers with Lincoln:  Looking for the Man in the Monuments, by James Percoco
bullet Lincoln and Whitman:  Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington, by Daniel Epstein
bullet Rebel Giants:  The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin, by David Contosta
bullet Manhunt:  The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, by James Swanson
bullet The Lincoln Funeral Train:  The Final Journey & National Funeral for Abraham Lincoln, by Scott Trostel
bullet The Last Lincoln Conspirator:  John Surratt’s Flight from the Gallows, by Andrew Jampoler
   

When you place a hold, your name is added to a list with others who are waiting for that title. The order of the list follows the sequence in which the holds were placed. When it is your turn to receive the book, the library staff will notify you by phone and hold the item for up to four days to give you time to pick it up.

If the library doesn't own a book you are looking for, we might be able to borrow it from another Illinois library via Interlibrary Loan 

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