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Matthew Pinsker

Matthew Pinsker is one of our foremost historians of Lincoln and the Civil War. He holds the Pohanka Chair in American Civil War History and is director of the House Divided Project at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Matthew Pinsker

Matthew Pinsker is one of our foremost historians of Lincoln and the Civil War. He holds the Pohanka Chair in American Civil War History and is director of the House Divided Project at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Books by Matthew Pinsker

  • Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln

    Matthew Pinsker

    Hardback, 2026

    An eye-opening portrait of Abraham Lincoln behind the scenes: here is the career-long party politician whose brilliant coalition-building during the Civil War set the political foundation for...

  • Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln

    Matthew Pinsker

    E Book

    An eye-opening portrait of Abraham Lincoln behind the scenes: here is the career-long party politician whose brilliant coalition-building during the Civil War set the political foundation for...