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If you loved Lincoln

Books like Lincoln

If you loved Lincoln by David Herbert Donald, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

H.W. Brands

No. 2

A. Lincoln

Ronald C. White Jr.

No. 3

Theodore Rex

Edmund Morris

No. 4

Truman

David McCullough

No. 5

Benjamin Franklin

Walter Isaacson

No. 6

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham

No. 7

Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

No. 8

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Suzanne Toren

No. 9

John Adams

David McCullough

No. 10

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

Doris Kearns Goodwin

No. 11

April 1865: The Month That Saved America

Jay Winik

No. 12

Einstein

Walter Isaacson

No. 13

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Joseph J. Ellis

No. 14

His Excellency: George Washington

Joseph J. Ellis

No. 15

Battle Cry of Freedom

James M. McPherson

No. 16

Mornings on Horseback

David McCullough

No. 17

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

No. 18

1776

David McCullough

No. 19

Colonel Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

No. 20

Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

Stephen E. Ambrose

No. 21

Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)

Robert A. Caro

No. 22

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

No. 23

The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)

Robert A. Caro

No. 24

Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

Sally Bedell Smith