{"id":230,"date":"2008-10-27T11:21:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T16:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2010-06-15T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T20:26:17","slug":"good-article-about-new-lincoln-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/10\/27\/good-article-about-new-lincoln-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good article about new Lincoln books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/books\/news\/2008-10-06-lincoln-mcpherson_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today article<\/a> provides a good overview of some of the best new Lincoln books upcoming in the run up to the bicentennial of his birth in 2009.\u00a0\u00a0 The article features information about James McPherson&#8217;s new work, Tried by War, a study of Lincoln as Commander-In-Chief.\u00a0 Along the way, the story provides some interesting new stories from McPherson about his own career and how he has worked over the years with his wife Patricia or Pat on various historical projects.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/10\/mcphersonx-large3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-231\" title=\"mcphersonx-large3\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/10\/mcphersonx-large3-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/10\/mcphersonx-large3-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/10\/mcphersonx-large3.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent USA Today article provides a good overview of some of the best new Lincoln books upcoming in the run up to the bicentennial of his birth in 2009.\u00a0\u00a0 The article features information about James McPherson&#8217;s new work, Tried by War, a study of Lincoln as Commander-In-Chief.\u00a0 Along the way, the story provides some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81,174],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-recent-news","category-recent-scholarship","tag-education-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}