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Sample Published Book Reviewsby Bernard von Bothmer

Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party: A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford

Congress & the Presidency

Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party

Middle West Review

Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy

The Journal of American History

The Confederate Homefront: A History in Documents

Louisiana History

Liberty and Union: The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism

Civil War Book Review

Two Against Lincoln: Reverdy Johnson and Horatio Seymour, Champions of the Loyal Opposition

Civil War Book Review

Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August

History News Network

The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents

History News Network

The Last of the President’s Men

History News Network

This Distracted and Anarchical People

Civil War History

Of Times and Race: Essays Inspired by John F. Marszalek

Civil War History

Lincoln’s Christianity

The Journal of South History

The New Deal & Beyond: Social Welfare in the South Since 1930

Southern Historian

A Self-Evident Lie

Civil War Book Review

My Father at 100

History News Network

The Age of Lincoln and the Art of American Power, 1848-1876

Civil War Book Review

The Boys in the Boat

History News Network

American Umpire

History News Network

The Man He Became

History News Network

Roosevelt’s Second Act

History News Network

The Civil War in 50 Objects

History News Network

Lincoln & Liberty

Civil War Book Review

1944: FDR and the Year that Changed History

History News Network

Democratic Narrative, History and Memory

The Journal of American History

Lincoln’s Final Hours

Civil War Book Review

The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire

The Journal of American Nineteenth Century History