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The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage
The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage was named one of the top ten books of 2008 by the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Sun-Times. "Readers will be grateful for his modesty and for much else. He has written what may be the best Lincoln book in a generation."
–Andrew Ferguson, The Wall Street Journal
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Lincoln's
Men: The President and His Private Secretaries
"The only modern history of Hay and Nicolay and Stoddard
who embraced Lincoln as teacher, employer, and friend,
but who also led occasionally tempestuous private lives."
–Scholar's Bookshelf
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Sister
Aimee
"Aimee Semple McPherson was an evangelist, a faith-healer,
and a star–a peculiarly American combination .
. . [Epstein] tells her story with insight, empathy and
lyrical power, without ever losing a sense of what a
strange tale it is . . . a remarkable book."
–Los Angeles Times Book Review, front
page
"Powerhouse biography of perhaps the most charismatic
and controversial woman in modern religious history.
Although now less than a household name, Aimee Semple
McPherson dominated the American spiritual landscape
of six or seven decades ago."
–Kirkus Reviews
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Lincoln
and Whitman
"Beautifully written . . . Epstein's portraits of
the president and the poet, his sketches of a fascinating
supporting cast, his depiction of Civil War Washington's
mix of squalor and majesty . . . all are exquisitely
exact. Lincoln and Whitman is an elegant book."
–The Providence Journal
"Epstein, an accomplished poet as well
as biographer, imbues his tale of two lives with
a natural sense of detail and period that revivifies
the familiar figures he writes about."
–The New Yorker
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What
Lips My Lips Have Kissed
"[Epstein] writes with acuity and grace about the
young Millay's determination, yearnings, and intellectual
spirituality. . . . Epstein's keen readings of Millay's
poetry and temperament is smart, stirring, and invaluable."
–Donna Seaman, Booklist
"Well researched and briskly narrated."
–Judith Thurman, The New Yorker
"Epstein creates a rendering
worthy of the poet's energetic life."
–People
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Nat
King Cole
"Daniel Mark Epstein's biography Nat King Cole gives
us the most complete accounting yet of all the Coles
who added up to a musical king. . . . He is out to make
sense (personal, social, and musical) of a man the American
imagination turned into more than just a popular artist
and entertainer. . . . He keeps the story bouncing along
with plenty of vigor, and he makes room for the voices
of people who knew Cole and were of his time.
–Margo Jefferson, New York Times Book Review, front page
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