10 Lincoln/Civil War books that most influenced your thinking.

[davg2000]

Great topic!

Here's my list:

10. MacKinlay Kantor, Andersonville
9. Shelby Foote, The Civil War (in tandem with the Ken Burns movie on PBS)
8. Edward Steers, Blood on the Moon
7. Benjamin Thomas, Lincoln
6. David Herbert Donald, Lincoln
5. Bruce Catton, [/i]Army of the Potomac Trilogy
4. Francis Trevelyan Miller, The Photographic History of the Civil War
3. Michael Kauffman, [i]American Brutus
2. Dorothy Kunhardt and Philip Kunhardt, Twenty Days
1. William Herndon and Jesse Weik, The True Story of a Great Life

I'll probably second-guess myself with everything above #3. However, all ten of these are titles that I still think about, some of them years after having read them. Andersonville, for example, I think I read in the 1950's.