...Robert H. Woody Lincoln’s Sons . By Randall Ruth Painter . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1955 . Pp. xvi , 373 . $5.00 Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure . By Randall J. G. Current Richard N. . New York : Dodd, Mead & Company , 1955 . Pp. xi...

...Robert W. Johannsen Abraham Lincoln: The Quest for Immortality . By Anderson Dwight G. . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1982 . Pp. ix , 271 . $16.95 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 348 The South Atlantic Quarterly Abraham Lincoln: The Quest for Immortality...

...Walter Nugent America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt . By Cashman Sean Dennis . New York & London : New York University Press , 1984 . Pp. x , 370 . $35.00 cloth, $13.50 paper. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985...

...Peter Maslowski Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership . By Cox La Wanda . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1981 . Pp. xiii , 254 . $17.95 . Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 464 The South Atlantic Quarterly Lincoln and Black...

...Allen W. Trelease Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: The Louisiana Experiment . By McCrary Peyton . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1979 . Pp. vii , 423 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Book Reviews 453 gether the artist and moralist. All...

...Robert F. Durden Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 A. Lincoln: Honkie or Equalitarian? Robert F. Durden The traditional image of Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipa­ tor and the fountainhead of racial liberalism in modem America is under sharp attack today. It is foolish...

...Raven I. McDavid, Jr. The Treasure of Our Tongue: The Story of English from Its Obscure Beginnings to Its Present Eminence as the Most Widely Spoken Language on Earth . By Barnett Lincoln . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1964 . Pp. x , 304 , xxxv . $5.95 . Copyright © 1966...

...Robert F. Durden The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Complete One-Volume History of His Life and Times . By Luthin Reinhard H. . With introduction by Nevins Allan . Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall , 1960 . Pp. xviii , 778 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University...

...Alfred B. Rollins, Jr. Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 The Heart of Lincoln Steffens Alfred B. Rollins, Jr. Joseph Lincoln Steffens was a unique character among Amer­ ican social thinkers. Though a popular and widely known social critic in the progressive era and again...

...Fletcher M. Green Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Fletcher M. Green LINCOLN: "the taste [of the Presidency] is in my mouth a little Myth makers and hero worshipers would have the American people believe that Abraham Lincoln was a statesman of national repute...

...Robert H. Woody The Enduring Lincoln . Edited by Graebner Norman A. . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1959 . Pp. viii , 129 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 587 tion ; the novel is a triumph of sterility, remarkable...

...Theodore Ropp Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War. Vol. III: Grant’s First Year in the West . By Williams Kenneth P. . New York : Macmillan , 1952 . Pp. xiv , 585 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 321 Lincoln Finds...

...Archibald Rutledge Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 ABRAHAM LINCOLN FIGHTS THE BATTLE OF FORT SUMTER ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE HERE appears no doubt that even to most Americans of JL high intelligence, President Lincoln s amazing strategy at the time of the Fort Sumter episode has...

... Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 LINCOLN AND LEE THE SOUTHERNER * I IT HAS been said that Jefferson Davis is the hero of the South her William Tell in fact. In this estimate I do not concur. True, in bravery and in loyalty to the Confeder­ acy Mr. Davis was unsurpassed...

...James G. Randall Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 LINCOLN IN THE ROLE OF DICTATOR JAMES G. RANDALL University of Illinois HOW MANY more thousand books must be written before we learn what sort of man he really was? 1 This remark was made in a recent brochure by a Lincolnian...

...E. Walter Sikes Copyright © 1906 by Duke University Press 1906 Lincoln: Master of Men* By B. Walter Sikes, Professor of History in Wake Forest College A new book on Lincoln is always welcome, especially so at a time when there is a national movement on foot to purchase the old Lincoln home...

...Robert H. Woody Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot, 1861. From Pinkerton Records and Related Papers . Edited by Cuthbert Norma B. . San Marino, California : The Huntington Library , 1949 . Pp. xxii , 161 . $3.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 115...

...Theodore Ropp Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War . By Williams Kenneth P. . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1949 . 2 vols. Pp. xviii , 902 . $12.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 401 the absence of strong discontent...

...R. H. Woody Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings . Edited by Basler Roy P. . Preface by Carl Sandburg. Cleveland and New York : The World Publishing Company , 1946 . Pp. xxx , 843 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 429 Abraham Lincoln...

...Archibald Rutledge Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 LINCOLN AND THE THEORY OF SECESSION ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE Any PEOPLE anywhere, being inclined and having the power, Ilhave the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better...