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Benjamin P. Thomas • 11 Items / 8 Books, 2 Articles, 1 Review
Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (1952)
by Benjamin Platt Thomas
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Published Reviews
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    American History (Review)
    Brainerd Dyer
    Abraham Lincoln: A Biography, by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    1. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    The American Historical Review, July 1953, p. 944
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    Reviews (Review)
    Edwin C. Rozwenc
    Abraham Lincoln: A Biography, by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    1. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    Political Science Quarterly, June 1953, pp. 297-298
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    An Essential Lincoln (Review)
    Gerald W. Johnson
    Abraham Lincoln: A Biography, by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    1. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    The New Republic, December 15, 1952, p. 19
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    Captain from Illinois (Review)
    Allan Nevins
    Abraham Lincoln: A Biography, by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    1. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    The Saturday Review, November 8, 1952, p. 15
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    Another View of Lincoln (Review)
    Paul Kiniery
    Abraham Lincoln: A Biography, by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    1. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    Commonweal, December 12, 1952, pp. 262-263
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    Book Notes (3 Reviews)
    Abraham Lincoln: A Biography, by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    1. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    2. New World Writing: First Mentor Selection
    3. Discovery by John W. Aldridge and Vance Bourjaily
    The Reporter, February 17, 1953, pp. 40-42
  7. Books and the Arts
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    Lincoln in the War Years (3 Reviews)
    Oscar Handlin
    Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War, by Charles A. de Pineton Chambrun
    1. Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War by Charles A. de Pineton Chambrun
    2. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    3. Lincoln the President, Vol. III: Midstream by J.G. Randall
    The Nation, November 22, 1952, p. 470
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    Aspects of Lincoln (4 Reviews)
    Edward N. Saveth
    Abraham Lincoln: A Biography, by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    1. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    2. Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War by Charles A. de Pineton Chambrun
    3. Lincoln: A Picture Story of His Life by Stefan Lorant
    4. Lincoln and the Russians by Albert A. Woldman
    Commentary, April 1953, pp. 424-426
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    Atlantic Bookshelf (12 Reviews)
    Charles J. Rolo
    Reader's Choice
    1. Sironia, Texas by Madison Cooper
    2. Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell by Alan Dent, Bernard Shaw, and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, ...
    3. The Selected Prose of Bernard Shaw by Diarmuid Russell and Bernard Shaw
    4. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    5. Lincoln: A Picture Story of His Life by Stefan Lorant
    6. Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War by Charles A. de Pineton Chambrun
    7. Lincoln Finds a General by Kenneth P. Williams
    8. Lincoln the President, Vol. III: Midstream by J.G. Randall
    9. Madeleine by Andre Gide
    10. The Correspondence Between Paul Claudel and Andre Gide, 1899-1926 by Robert Mallet, Paul Claudel, and Andre Gide
    11. The Days Before by Katherine Anne Porter
    12. The Shores of Light by Edmund Wilson
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1952, pp. 92-97
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    Brief Comments (20 Reviews)
    Twenty outstanding books of the previous quarter
    1. The Course of Empire by Bernard DeVoto
    2. A History of the Crusades, Vol. II by Steven Runciman
    3. Rendezvous With Destiny by Eric F. Goldman
    4. Myths and Realities by Carl Bridenbaugh
    5. George Washington: A Biography, Vol. V by Douglas Southall Freeman
    6. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography by Benjamin Platt Thomas
    7. Lincoln the President, Vol. III: Midstream by J.G. Randall
    8. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Apprenticeship by Frank Freidel
    9. Moncure Conway, 1832-1907 by Mary Elizabeth Burtis
    10. The Holy Bible
    11. The Courage To Be by Paul Tillich
    12. Rumor and Reflection by Bernard Berenson
    13. Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Allan Ross Macdougall and Edna St. Vincent Millay, ...
    14. Andre Malraux and the Tragic Imagination by Wilbur M. Frohock
    15. Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell by Alan Dent, Bernard Shaw, and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, ...
    16. Stars in the Making by Cecilia H.P. Gaposchkin
    17. Collected Poems, 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish
    18. Life on the Texas Range by J. Evetts Haley and Erwin E. Smith
    19. Adobe Doorways by Dorothy L. Pillsbury
    20. Love Is a Many Splendored Thing by Suyin Han
    The American Scholar, Spring 1953, pp. 241-253