Judging Lincoln - Hardcover

Frank J. Williams is chief justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island and a well-known expert on Abraham Lincoln. He has authored or edited eleven books, contributed chapters to several others, and lectured on the subject throughout the country. At the same time, he has amassed a private library and archive that ranks among the nation’s largest and finest Lincoln collections. Williams is the founding chairman of the Lincoln Forum, the current president of the Ulysses S. Grant Association, and a past president of the Abraham Lincoln Association and the Lincoln Group of Boston. In 2000, Chief Justice Williams was appointed by Congress to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission to plan events commemorating the two hundredth birthday of Abraham Lincoln in 2009.

Harold Holzer, co-chair of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and author and editor of many books on Lincoln, provides a foreword to this volume.

John Y. Simon, executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Association and editor of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, provides the collection’s epilogue.