A. Lincoln: A Biography will be published by Random House January 13, 2009 and is available for pre-order now from: Amazon.com, Random House, Borders, Powell's, Barnes and Noble, and bookstores near you. A National Book Tour will begin in Miami on January 13, 2009 and include visits to Nashville, Portland, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Minneapolis, San Diego, Oxford and Jackson MS, Austin and Houston. Please click (here) for a complete list of speaking and book signing events through February 2009.
Here's what some of America's foremost historians are saying about A. Lincoln:
"Ronald C. White's A. Lincoln is the best biography of Lincoln since David Donald's Lincoln (1995). In many respects it is better than Donald's biography, because it has incorporated the scholarship of the past fourteen years and is written in a fluent style that will appeal to a large range of general readers as well as Lincoln aficionados. The special strengths of A. Lincoln that lift it above other biographies include a brilliant analysis of Lincoln's principal speeches and writings, which were an important weapon in his political leadership and statesmanship, and on which Ron White is the foremost expert, having written two major books on Lincoln's speeches and writings. Another strength is White's analysis of Lincoln's evolving religious convictions, which shaped the core of his effective leadership, his moral integrity. White's discussion of Lincoln's changing attitudes and policies with respect to slavery and race is also a key aspect of this biography. Amid all the books on Lincoln that will be published during the coming year, this one will stand out as one of the best."
--James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom and This Mighty Scourge
"A beautifully written, deeply personal story of Lincoln's life and service to his country. Ron White's moving account is particularly strong in its analyses of Lincoln's rhetoric and the process by which the President reached decisions."
--Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848.
"Each generation requires—and seems to inspire—its own masterful one-volume Lincoln biography, and scholar Ronald C. White has crowned the bicentennial year with an instant classic for the 21st century. Wise, scholarly, even-handed, and elegant, the book at once informs and inspires, with a rewarding new emphasis on the complex meaning and timeless importance of Lincoln’s great words. Brimming with new anecdotes and informed interpretations, White’s superb study brings vivid new life to an American immortal."
--Harold Holzer, author of Lincoln: President-Elect, co-chairman, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
“Lincoln is endlessly chronicled because he is, like the nation he saved, endlessly fascinating. Ronald White has written a splendid, sprawling biography of a man we can never know too much about."
--Jon Meacham, author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House; Editor, Newsweek.
