Benjamin Platt Thomas (February 22, 1902 – November 29, 1956) was an American historian and biographer of

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation thro ...

. In 1952 he published a best-selling one volume biography on Lincoln entitled ''Abraham Lincoln: A Biography'' (Knopf, 1952). Thomas killed himself on November 29, 1956. Three days before, his doctor had confirmed Thomas's suspicion, that since the preceding summer, he had throat cancer.

Books

* ''"Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays.'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. (with Michael Burlingame) * ''Stanton; The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War''. New York: Knopf, 1962. (with

Harold Melvin Hyman Harold Melvin Hyman (born July 24, 1924) is an historian of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era at Rice University. He is emeritus William P. Hobby professor at Rice. Hyman has a bachelor's degree from the University of California, ...

) * ''Three Years with Grant''. New York: Knopf, 1955. (with Sylvanus Cadwallader) * ''Abraham Lincoln: A Biography''. New York: Knopf, 1952. * ''

Theodore Weld Theodore Dwight Weld (November 23, 1803 – February 3, 1895) was one of the architects of the American abolitionist movement during its formative years from 1830 to 1844, playing a role as writer, editor, speaker, and organizer. He is best known ...

, Crusader for Freedom.'' New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1950. * ''Portrait for Posterity: Lincoln and His Biographers''. New Brunswick .J. Rutgers University Press, 1947. * ''Lincoln, 1847-1853, Being the Day-by-Day Activities of Abraham Lincoln from January 1, 1847 to December 31, 1853''. Springfield, Ill: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1936. * ''Lincoln's New Salem''. Springfield, Ill: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1934. * ''Russo-American Relations, 1815-1867''. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1930.

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