David T. Dixon, The Lost Gettysburg Address: Charles Anderson’s Civil War Odyssey (B-List History, 2015).
Mark Dunkelman, Patrick Henry Jones: Irish American, Civil War General, and Gilded Age Politician (Louisiana State University Press, 2015).
Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle, A Just and Generous Nation: Abraham Lincoln and the Fight for American Opportunity (Basic, 2015).
Noeleen McIlvenna, The Short Life of Free Georgia: Class and Slavery in the Colonial South (University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692 (Little, Brown, 2015).
T.J. Stiles, Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America (Knopf, 2015).
Zoe Trodd and John Stauffer, Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American (Liveright, 2015).
I have wanted to get the Patrick Henry Jones book for a while. Seeing it here prompted me to buy it for 41 bucks. Pretty painful price for an e-book, but I have read about a quarter of it today and it has been very good so far.
I haven’t read it, but will do so when I get the chance. I’ve said a number of times that Mark is one of my favorite writers. I am curious as to how he approaches writing a biography.