Harold Holzer, a leading authority on Lincoln and the Civil War, is Chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and a Roger Hertog Fellow at the New York Historical Society. Widely honored for his work, Holzer earned a second-place Lincoln Prize for Lincoln at Cooper Union in 2005 and in 2008 was awarded the National Humanities Medal. Holzer is Senior Vice President of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and lives in Rye, New York.

Books by Harold Holzer

Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

by Harold Holzer - History, Nonfiction, Politics

Harold Holzer shows us an activist Lincoln through journalists who covered him from his start through to the night of his assassination --- when one reporter ran to the box where Lincoln was shot and emerged to write the story covered with blood. Holzer depicts politicized newspaper editors battling for power, and a masterly president using the press to speak directly to the people and shape the nation.