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Abraham Lincoln A Life

Michael Burlingame

Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised. Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, free...

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The Rest Is History

The hosts mentioned Burlingame's massive multivolume biography of Abraham Lincoln, noting its 10,000page length and that much of it had been made available online.

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So his biographer, Michael Burlingame, who wrote, I have to say, I mean, it's genuinely, it's about a 10,000-page biography, and it's so long that a lot of it was cut out. So he put it all online. Tha...

— Episode: 590. The Assassination of Abraham Lincol...

Episode: 590. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Death a...

The hosts mentioned Burlingame's massive multivolume biography of Abraham Lincoln, noting its 10,000page length and that much of it had been made available online.

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So his biographer, Michael Burlingame, who wrote, I have to say, I mean, it's genuinely, it's about a 10,000-page biography, and it's so long that a lot of it was cut out. So he put it all online. That is such Sandbrook behaviour.

Now Michael Burlingame points out that in the north as well this is your point about censorship Tom Lincoln's critics often compare him with Julius Caesar so in May 1863...

History That Doesn't Suck

The biography was mentioned in passing while the host was introducing the muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell. The book, referred to as The Life of Lincoln and attributed to Tarbell, was cited solely to establish her prior reputation and credibility as a major author before she undertook her famous investigation into Standard Oil. It served purely as contextual background rather than a dedicated recommendation.

Episode: 113: A Square Deal (pt. 2): Consumer Protection–Th...

It was mentioned as one of Ida Tarbell's works, alongside her Standard Oil history, highlighting her established reputation as a writer before undertaking the Standard Oil investigation.

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The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida M. Tarbell, author of The Life of Lincoln.

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