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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.28 average rating, · 203.5k ratings
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Grant
Ron Chernow
4.50 average rating, · 45.7k ratings
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Bill O'Reilly
4.06 average rating, · 109.6k ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson
4.41 average rating, · 34.8k ratings
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson
4.17 average rating, · 62.1k ratings
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Lincoln
David Herbert Donald
4.20 average rating, · 49.2k ratings
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson
4.17 average rating, · 35.4k ratings
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A. Lincoln
Ronald C. White Jr.
4.30 average rating, · 20.5k ratings
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz
4.10 average rating, · 25.8k ratings
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The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
Shelby Foote
4.44 average rating, · 13.9k ratings
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jon Meacham
4.45 average rating, · 10.6k ratings
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David W. Blight
4.18 average rating, · 13.1k ratings
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Jay Winik
4.16 average rating, · 12.6k ratings
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The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
Timothy Egan
4.31 average rating, · 9.8k ratings
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The Civil War: A Narrative
Shelby Foote
4.53 average rating, · 8.1k ratings
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The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
Shelby Foote
4.54 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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Grant
Jean Edward Smith
4.03 average rating, · 13k ratings
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The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox
Shelby Foote
4.55 average rating, · 7.6k ratings
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Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
S.C. Gwynne
4.30 average rating, · 9.1k ratings
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The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
4.52 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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Gone With the Wind: the Definitive Illustrated History of the Book, the Movie, and the Legend
Herb Bridges
4.47 average rating, · 8.3k ratings
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Personal Memoirs
Ulysses S. Grant
4.15 average rating, · 10.1k ratings
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Mary Edwards Walker: America's Only Female Medal of Honor Recipient
Ammar Habib
4.37 average rating, · 8k ratings
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With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Stephen B. Oates
4.28 average rating, · 8.8k ratings
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