12 Top biography books like Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment by Allen C. Guelzo

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Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

By: Allen C. Guelzo

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the C…

If you liked the biography plot in Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment by Allen C. Guelzo , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Consequences of Ideas

By: R.C. Sproul

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

If you think philosophy is irrelevant to your daily life, think again. You need only observe the wo… read more

Similar categories in R.C. Sproul's Consequences of Ideas book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin

2. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

Similar categories in Doris Kearns Goodwin's An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
Cover of Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen

3. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

By: Jared Cohen

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most pow… read more

Similar categories in Jared Cohen's Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
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4. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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5. The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

By: James L. Swanson

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding ac… read more

Similar categories in James L. Swanson's The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O'Brien

6. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

Similar categories in Keith O'Brien's Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By: Jeff Shaara

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara brings alive the heart-stopping days and nights of th… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Shaara's The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • american history
  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • war
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8. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

By: Rebecca Boyle

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Boyle's Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration

By: Harold Holzer

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grapp… read more

Similar categories in Harold Holzer's Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White Jr.

10. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

4.45

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more

Similar categories in Ronald C. White Jr.'s On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
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11. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

By: Steve Inskeep

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more

Similar categories in Steve Inskeep's Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • war
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."

-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

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12. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

Similar categories in Adam Higginbotham's Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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13. Reading Genesis

By: Marilynne Robinson

4.10

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more

Similar categories in Marilynne Robinson's Reading Genesis book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

By: Elizabeth Varon

4.15

Format: 516 pages, ebook

An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruct… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Varon's Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • war
  • nonfiction
"I have some little reputation, but my men made it all for me. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Article in -Sumter Republican-, October 29, 1864."

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

"...the power of battle is in generalship more than in the number of soldiers. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1876)"

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

"[The] object of politics is to relieve the distress of the people and to provide for their future comfort. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Letter to the New Orleans Times, June 8, 1867."

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

"It does not look like generalship to lose a battle and a cause and then lay the responsibility upon others. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1896)"

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

Cover of Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics by H.W. Brands

15. Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics

By: H.W. Brands

4.01

Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition

From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the sho… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History by Edward Achorn

16. The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History

By: Edward Achorn

4.51

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American h… read more

Similar categories in Edward Achorn's The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment by Allen C. Guelzo

17. Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

By: Allen C. Guelzo

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the C… read more

Similar categories in Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • presidents
  • war
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich

18. Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

By: Fergus M. Bordewich

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil—when Ulysse… read more

Similar categories in Fergus M. Bordewich's Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him by David Reynolds

19. Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

By: David Reynolds

4.16

Format: 580 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him… read more

Similar categories in David Reynolds's Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again by Yuval Levin

20. American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again

By: Yuval Levin

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A top conservative scholar reveals the Constitution’s remarkable power to repair our broken civic c… read more

Similar categories in Yuval Levin's American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Allen C. Guelzo's Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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4.71

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Jared Cohen

4.27

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4.51

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