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An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln, consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches and conversations. compiled and annotated by nathaniel Wright Stephenson. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill company 1926. E457 .L735

The life and writings of Abraham Lincoln. edited, and with a biographcial essay by Philip Van Doren Stern; with an introduction, "Lincoln in his writings," by Allan Nevins. NY: Modern library, 1940. E457.92

Abraham Lincoln: his speeches and writings. edited with critical and analytical notes by Roy P. Basler...Preface by Carl Sandburg. NY: World Publishing Co. 1946. E457.92

The Lincoln papers; the story of the collection, with selections to July 4, 1861. introd. by Carl Sandburg. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948. E 457.92 1948. Library Has: v.2.

Collected works. Roy P. Basler, editor; Marion Dolores Pratt and Lloyd A. Dunlap, assistant editors. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1953-55. E457.91 1953. Library Has: v.1-v.8 Index

Created equal? The complete Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. Edited and with an introd. by Paul M. Angle. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1958. E457.4 .L77

The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. edited by Robert W. Johannsen. NY: Oxford UP, 1965. E457.4 .L7726

Abe Lincoln laughing: humorous anecdotes from original sources by and about Abraham Lincoln. edited with an introduction by P.M. Zall ; foreword by Ray Allen Billington. Berkeley: U of California P, 1982. E457.15 .A13

The wit & wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: a treasury of more than 650 quotations and anecdotes. James C. Humes ; with a foreword by Lamar Alexander. NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. E457.99 .H88

| Top | Selected Bibliography (restricted to American Literature and American Studies)

Anderson, David. "Abraham Lincoln, Man of Letters." University College Quarterly 12.2 (1967): 3-8.

- - -. Abraham Lincoln. NY: Twayne, 1970.

Andrews, James R. "Oaths Registered in Heaven: Rhetorical and Historical Legitimacy in the Inaugural Addresses of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln." Doing Rhetorical History: Concepts and Cases. Ed. Kathleen J. Turner. Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 1998. 95-117.

Angle, Paul M., and Richard G. Case. A Portrait of Abraham Lincoln in Letters by His Oldest Son. Chicago: Chicago Hist. Soc., 1968.

Buhle, Paul. "Abraham Lincoln Polonsky's America." American Quarterly 49.4 (Dec 1997): 874-81.

Cowley, Malcolm. "Lament for the Abraham Lincoln Battalion." Sewanee Review 92.3 (Sumr 1984): 331-47.

Ely, M. Lynda. "Memorializing Lincoln: Whitman's 'Revision' of James Speed's Oration upon the Inauguration of the Bust of Abraham Lincoln." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 14.4 (Sprg 1997): 176-80.

Engel, Bernard F. "Abraham Lincoln, Poet." Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Newsletter 9.1 (1979): 4-7.

Garner, Wayne L. "Abraham Lincoln and the Uses of Humor." DAI 24 (1963): 726.

McPherson, James M. "The Art of Abraham Lincoln." NY Review of Books 39.13 (Jul 16, 1992): 3-5.

Mieder, Wolfgang. The Proverbial Abraham Lincoln: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Abraham Lincoln. NY: Peter Lang, 2000.

Rhodehamel, John H., and Thomas F. Schwartz. The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America. San Marino, CA: Huntington Lib., 1993.

Robertson, James O. "Horatio Alger, Andrew Carnegie, Abraham Lincoln, and the Cowboy." Midwest Quarterly 20 (1979): 241-57.

Stevenson, James A. "Southern Fictions about Abraham Lincoln." RE Arts and Letters 16.1 (Sprg 1990): 4-17.

Taylor, Marjorie A. "Vachel Lindsay and the Ghost of Abraham Lincoln." Centennial Review 22 (1978): 110-17.

Woertendyke, Ruis D. "The Character of Abraham Lincoln as He Has Been Portrayed in the American Theatre from 1861 to 1987." DAI 52.6 (De 1991): DA9134788.

Zall, P. M. ed. Abe Lincoln Laughing: Humorous Anecdotes from Original Sources by and about Abraham Lincoln. Berkeley: U of California P, 1982.

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