CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2010
"In her first novel for young readers, the author goes beyond usual stories of the civil-rights movement, demonstrating well-intentioned but tone-deaf gestures of white supporters and the discomfort of change. (Historical fiction. 10-14)"
Twelve-year-old Mina Edelman is convinced that her family is the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln's.
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INDIE
Released: July 31, 2009
"A lucid, thought-provoking account of slavery's dark roots and vexed progress."
Slavery's malignant influence on American politics and constitutional law is illuminated in this probing historical study.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 3, 2008
"A highly readable, often insightful analysis of an unequaled prose master for whom writing was "the supreme artifact of human genius.""
CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 14, 2008
"Extensive end notes round out an impressive volume. (bibliography, websites, a note on research, picture credits, index) (Nonfiction. 10-14)"
Fleming's five-year immersion in letters, diaries, newspapers, speeches and other primary documents yields a monumental visual chronicle of Abraham and Mary Lincoln and their times.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2008
"It was through the camera that the most remarkable events in Abraham Lincoln's life were revealed, events that not only disclosed but shaped his life as well."
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2008
"A crisply articulated, dynamic presentation of how the debates unfolded and why they still matter today."
Two-time Lincoln Prize winner Guelzo (Civil War Era History/Gettysburg Coll.;
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, 2004, etc.) colorfully chronicles the most famous Senate campaign in American history.
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