Dedication Quote by Sarah Vowell

There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that many people…

— Michael Beschloss

A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.

— Fred Kaplan

The post-assassination Lincoln took on a greatly amplified importance to much of the American public, probably the president most deeply reviled in his lifetime…

— Fred Kaplan

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was…

— David Herbert Donald

I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from…

— Fred Kaplan

Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you…

— Vince Flynn

My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled…

— Belle Boyd

“For better than thirty years, as a working historian, I have written on leaders I knew, such as Lyndon Johnson, and interviewed intimates of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good,…

— Steven Spielberg

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

— Steven Spielberg

Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to have genuinely…

— Jay Winik

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time…

— David Herbert Donald