Abraham Lincoln : Great American Historians on our Sixteenth President
Brian Lamb is C-SPAN's chairman and CEO and longtime on-camera interviewer, noted for his "just the facts" style of interviewing. Many of the essays in this book are drawn from Booknotes, Lamb's long-running author-interview program, while others were conducted for C-SPAN's special history series on Lincoln and on the American presidency. Lamb lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Susan Swain is President & co-Chief Operating Officer of C-SPAN. For more than twenty-five years, she has been an on-air interviewer for the program. A regular moderator of Washington Journal, she's interviewed hundreds of members of Congress, policy experts, journalists, and several presidents. She lives in Northern Virginia.
"Booklist," October 15, 2008
"This volume's review of the past 15 years of Lincoln authorial
effort demonstrates how interpretively vibrant the subject
remains"
"Kirkus," October 1, 2008
"As the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth approaches, this
collection serves as a useful introduction to the startling depth
of the Lincoln discussion among scholars during the past decade and
a half."
Frank J. Williams, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
and Founding Chair of The Lincoln Forum
"Brian Lamb and Susan Swain, in this latest C-SPAN book containing
fifty-five articles about Abraham Lincoln taken from "Booknotes"
and other C-SPAN programs, have given us a virtual biography of
America's greatest political leader. It is an extraordinary gift to
us in the bicentennial year of Lincoln's birth."
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