IN THE NEWS
From The New York Times (February 28, 2007)
One
Night Only. Gingrich vs. Cuomo in Elevated Discourse
By Sam Roberts
On Feb. 27, 1860, a “large and enthusiastic assemblage” of 1,500
or so actually paid to hear a relatively obscure and recently defeated United
States Senate candidate from the Midwest audition for the presidency.
He delivered a 7,700-word address on a single topic, opposing slavery and
favoring the union. It lasted about 90 minutes, and at the end, the New York
audience demanded more speeches that night.
Invoking the spirit of Abraham Lincoln’s transformative Cooper Union
speech, Mario M. Cuomo, a New York Democrat and former governor, and Newt
Gingrich, a Georgia Republican and former speaker of the House of Representatives,
will appear together on the stage of Cooper Union’s Great Hall tonight
for a discussion, to encourage today’s presidential candidates to spurn
sound bites for serious discussion and debate.
[read more]
From the Los Angeles Times (December 29, 2006)
Lincoln:
Focus On the Real Foe
How would four of the greatest war leaders in history have handled Iraq?
By Harold Holze
PRESIDENT BUSH has often cited Lincolnian resolve to justify staying the course
in Iraq. He takes inspiration from the knowledge that Abraham Lincoln too
endured failure, frustration and dissent, not to mention more American casualties
on a single day at Antietam than we've lost in all four years in Iraq. Yet
Lincoln still persuaded the North to persevere "until every drop of blood
drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword."
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more]
From Schenectady Daily Gazette (April 1, 2006)
Lincoln Expert Fond
of N.Y. Politics.
By Bill Buell - The Daily Gazette
Having authored, co-written or edited 24 books on Abraham Lincoln, Harold
Holzer, it can be assumed, knows quite a lot about our nation’s 16 th
president and his close associates, including New Yorker and Union College
grad William Seward, his secretary of state.
But Holzer, a New York native himself, is not only an expert on Lincoln, the
Civil War and 19 th century America. New York politics, particularly those
of the 1970s and ’80s, is another area he can include in his field of
expertise. [read more]
From Albany Times Union (April 11, 2006)
Author is given a key to city.
Harold Holzer, who serves as senior vice president of external affairs at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, recently received a key to
the city of Schenectady.
Holzer is the author of dozens of magazine articles and books about Abraham
Lincoln.
He was the recipient of the coveted Lincoln Prize for his 1995 book "lincoln
at Cooper Union: the Speech that made Abraham Lincoln President."
Mayor Brian Stratton presented Holzer with the key during Holzer's appearance
as part of Union College's lecture series at the Nott Memorial on the campus.
From The Journal News (June 27, 2004)
The Courtier of New York
By GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
Writer Andrew Solomon fondly recalls the time he shared with Harold Holzer
and Bill Clinton in the Lincoln Bedroom. Solomon was touring the Lincoln Bedroom
with Holzer, a Lincoln scholar, when in walked the president himself. "Harold
began telling him all about Lincoln," Solomon remembers, "and Bill
Clinton was totally rapt."... [read
more]
From The New York Times (April 8, 2004)
Sam Waterston, the star of the NBC drama "Law & Order"...[read
more]
Reviews
From The Journal News (June 27, 2004)
Lincoln: A figure of speech
By GEORGETTE GOUVEIA
"For all of its universally acknowledged importance, Lincoln's Cooper
Union address has for years enjoyed a peculiar reputation," Harold Holzer
writes. "It is widely understood to have somehow propelled Lincoln to
the presidency. Yet it has been virtually ignored by generations of historians,
most of whom have relegated it to the status of exalted footnote."...[read
more]
Civil
War Book Review
Frank J Williams reviews Harold Holzer's Lincoln at Cooper Union
The time is February, the year, 1860, a Presidential year. The country is
dividing, North and South, over the issue of slavery. People are migrating
westward into the territories on the Great Plains, and the burning question
is whether some are to be held as property in the new land...[more]
Lincoln at Cooper Union:The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President
By Harold Holzer
Review by Steven E. Woodworth, TownHall.com
Harold Holzer's latest gem of a book examines the circumstances, meaning,
and consequences
of one of Abraham Lincoln's most important speeches. The speech that Lincoln
gave
at Cooper Union in...[read
more]
Press Releases
From National Endowment For Humanities (September 9, 2004)
HAROLD HOLZER TO DELIVER ENDOWMENT'S "HEROES OF HISTORY" LECTURE AT FORD'S
THEATRE Noted author and lecturer is co-chairman of Lincoln Bicentennial Commission...[read
more]
Read the press release issued by Simon & Schuster
in April 2004 to officially
announce the publication of Harold Holzer's Lincoln at Cooper
Union.
