About Quote by Stacy Schiff

The best one-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln is still Benjamin Thomas's 1952 biography. David Donald's 1995 biography is a close second, and close enough…

— Allen C. Guelzo

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”   Abraham Lincoln”

— Rriiver Nyile

“Yet historians still start their books with a ritual lament about 'the sources' and their inadequacy. The lament is not entirely insincere (though it…

— Mary Beard

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

— Walter Isaacson

“We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don’t see it…

— C. N. Lester

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

— Antonia Fraser

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

— Fred Kaplan

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

— Nancy Horan

“There is no history; there is only biography,” Emerson once wrote.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.

— Ron Chernow

“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes…

— John Ashbery

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