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Explore 24 books like Lincoln by David Herbert Donald — a handpicked selection united by Presidents & Heads of State, Civil War Period (1850-1877), Literary Figures, and United States.

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Writing the Gettysburg Address

Martin P. Johnson

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

Lincoln’s Mentors The Education of a Leader

Michael J. Gerhardt

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

Abraham Lincoln and White America

Brian R. Dirck

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

Abraham Lincoln A Life

Michael Burlingame

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

Lincoln on Law, Leadership, and Life

Jonathan White

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

Lincoln’s Battle with God A President’s Struggle with Faith and What It Meant for America

Stephen Mansfield

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

Tried by War Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

James M. McPherson

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

Abraham Lincoln

Applewood Books

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

#10

LIFE LINCOLN An Intimate Portrait

The Editors of LIFE

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

#11

A Self-Made Man The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809 – 1849

Sidney Blumenthal

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

#12

Lincoln Reconsidered Essays on the Civil War Era

David Herbert Donald

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

#13

Major McKinley William McKinley and the Civil War

William Howard Armstrong

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

#14

One Man Great Enough

John C. Waugh

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

#15

Abraham Lincoln and a Nation Worth Fighting for

James A. Rawley

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

#16

The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Vol 1.

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

#17

Lincoln The Biography of a Writer

Fred Kaplan

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Literary Figures • United States

#18

The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant The Autobiography of a General and U. S. President – Both Volumes, with Illustrations and Maps

Ulysses S. Grant

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

#19

Vote Lincoln! the Presidential Campaign Biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1860; Restored and Annotated (Expanded Edition, Softcover)

John Locke Scripps

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

#20

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself

Frederick Douglass

Themes: Civil War Period (1850-1877) • Literary Figures • United States

#21

Benjamin Harrison Hoosier Warrior, 1833-1865

Harry Joseph Sievers

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

#22

The Man Who Would Not Be Washington Robert E. Lee’s Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History

Jonathan Horn

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

#23

Lincoln and His Admirals

Craig L. Symonds

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

#24

Ulysses S. Grant Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865

Brooks Simpson

Themes: Presidents & Heads of State • Civil War Period (1850-1877) • United States

If Lincoln by David Herbert Donald is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Presidents & Heads of State, Civil War Period (1850-1877), Literary Figures and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Martin P. Johnson, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Michael J. Gerhardt, Brian R. Dirck, and others.