Name: Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote, Paperback/Craig Fehrman
Brand: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Price: 101.99 RON
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"One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years" ( The Wall Street Journal ) and based on a decade of research and reporting--a delightful new window into the public and private lives America's presidents as authors. Most Americans are familiar with Abraham Lincoln's famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the Eman-cipation Proclamation. Yet few can name the work that helped him win the presidency: his published collection of speeches entitled Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas . Lincoln labored in secret to get his book ready for the 1860 election, tracking down newspaper transcripts, editing them carefully for fairness, and hunting for a printer who would meet his specifications. Political Debates sold fifty thousand copies--the rough equivalent of half a million books in today's market--and it reveals something about Lincoln's presidential ambitions. But it also reveals something about his heart and mind. When voters asked about his beliefs, Lincoln liked to point them to his book. In Craig Fehrman 's "original, illuminating, and entertaining" (Jon Meacham) work of history, the story of America's presidents and their books opens a rich new window into presidential biography. From volumes lost to history--Calvin Coolidge's Autobiography , which was one of the most widely discussed titles of 1929--to ones we know and love--Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father , which was very nearly never published--Fehrm