Examines Lincoln's role during the Civil War

Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Philip B. Kunhardt III

Peter W. Kunhardt

Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr.

Historical

Gramercy

For many years, faithful readers of America's favorite magazine regularly began each issue of Life by thumbing to the back first to see the Miscellany page, which was designed to close each issue with an amusing -- often outrageous -- photograph that would leave the reader laughing. Life Smiles Back is a hilarious collection of the best photographs from this popular back page. Now in paperback, it includes 232 black-and-white photos of children, animals, and people in unconventional situations and outlandish circumstances, mostly taken by Life renders and assembled by one of the magazine's most renowned editors. A nostalgic collection of crazy snaps that whimsically recall the people, places, and events of the past, Life Smiles Back is an affectionate look at the zany side of our cultural history, guaranteed to make you smile.

Life Smiles Back

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

A biography of Abraham Lincoln chronicles his life and depicts him as president, military leader, politician, and family man, discussing his shortcomings and accomplishments. Tour.

Leaders & Notable People

Alfred.A. Knopf

If Abraham Lincoln was the great moral force of his age, Phineas Taylor Barnum was its great provider of joy. As one of the earliest practitioners of "the show business," Barnum dedicated his long career to alleviating the “severe and drudging practicalness” he considered the chief defect of American civilization. His remedy? A prodigious swarm of divas, minstrels, circuses, museums of curiosities, beauty pageants, sideshows, fat-baby and poultry contests – whatever it took to entertain his fellow citizens while making him one of his country’s first millionaires. With P.T. Barnum: America’s Greatest Showman, the Messrs Kunhardt rediscover the genius and vision of an unmatched impresario and entrepreneur. In vivid words and spellbinding pictures (more than 500 photographs, engravings, and color lithographs from 41 different archives), we meet a man of complex motives, a master of merchandise, an inveterate self-promoter often reviled for his opportunism. We meet the man who did NOT say "There’s a sucker born every minute"; whose best friends were clergymen; whose autobiography sold more than a million copies; who took a public leap through a flaming hoop to prove to the ASPCA that his performing horses were in no danger; who (allegedly) plotted with Samuel Clemens to lease a comet’s tail to take a million passengers on a guided tour of outer space. We meet the man who built his reputation – and his fortune – largely on the exoticism of others, but whose crowning moment as a member of the Connecticut state legislature came in a speech in favor of the constitutional amendment to abolish slavery: "A human soul is not to be trifled with. It may inhabit the body of a Chinaman, a Turk, an Arab or a Hotentot – it is still an immortal spirit!" There is no denying Barnum’s abiding influence, more than a century after his death, on our popular culture. For better AND for worse, we owe America’s irrepressible infatuation with show biz largely to him.

P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman

KNOPF

More than seven hundred photographic images of Lincoln, his contemporaries, and his era depict Abraham Lincoln's diverse roles as president, military leader, politician, and family man, exploring both his shortcomings and his accomplishments. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Philip Kunhardt III

Chronicles the twenty days from the assassination of President Lincoln to his burial in Springfield, Illinois, presenting more than three hundred illustrations in black and white throughout.

Twenty Days, A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

History

Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt

Americas

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Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography

Life Smiles Back

Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography

P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman

Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography

Twenty Days, A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln