The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American SlaveryModern · History, Nonfiction, Biography
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
2010 · 336 pages · Nonfiction
53
Modern
★ 4.18 on Goodreads · 7K ratings
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (2011). 4.18★ from 7K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
53Must-Read Score
- Critics53 out of 100 · counts 35%+21
- Readers56 out of 100 · counts 50%+32
- Buzz1 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #83 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #111 of the 220 history books we rank
- #149 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #460 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (2011)
Reads as
True story
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