The Portable Abraham Lincoln

DELBANCO, Andrew (editor)

ISBN 10: 0670840882 / ISBN 13: 9780670840885

Published by Viking Press, New York, 1992

About this Item

8vo. Blue cloth spine with with gilt lettering and cream paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxxvii, 341pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. A tight, handsome first edition of this handy compilation, part of this publisher's justifiably renowned "Viking Portable" series. Seller Inventory # 41696

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Publisher: Viking Press, New York

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

A portable collection of the speeches, letters, and private documents of one of America's greatest thinkers includes the president's daily observations on the progress of the Civil War.

About the Author:

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Delbanco was born in 1952. Educated at Harvard, he has lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad. He writes frequently on American culture for many national journals and papers, and  has co-directed a number of seminars for high school and college teachers at the National Endowment for the Humanities Center and under the sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Among his previous works are The Death of Satan, Required Reading, A New England Anthology, and The Puritan Ordeal, which received the 1990 Lionel Trilling Award at Columbia University, where he is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities. Mr. Delbanco lives in New York City with his wife and two children.