Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum News


	For Immediate Release: October 22, 2009	Contact: David Blanchette (217) 558-8970
	Looking for Lincoln and Lincoln, Life-Size author to appear November 19 at Presidential Museum Appearance coincides with 146th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address SPRINGFIELD - The author of a bestselling biography of Abraham Lincoln and another soon-to-be-released book about our 16th President will hold a book discussion and signing Thursday, November 19 at 7 p.m. in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum's Union Theater in Springfield. Reservations are required for this free event, and may be made by calling (217) 558-8934. The appearance occurs on the 146th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, which Abraham Lincoln delivered November 19, 1863. Philip B. Kunhardt III will release a new book in early November, Lincoln, Life-Size, a collection of photographic portraits from 1846 to 1865 that provide a visual account of Lincoln's progression from politician to President to Civil War commander-in-chief. Kunhardt co-authored the book with brother Peter W. Kunhardt and nephew Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. Philip B. Kunhardt III is also the author of Looking for Lincoln, the companion volume for the 2009 PBS-TV special of the same name, and the best-selling Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography (1992). He has also written The American President (2000) and P.T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman (1995). Kunhardt has more than 15 documentaries to his credit, including ABC's "Lincoln" (1992); Discovery's "Insanity Files" (1994); and PBS' "American President" (2000), "Echoes from the White House" (2001), "Freedom: A History of US" (2003), and "Mandate: The President and the People" (2005). Philip B. Kunhardt III has spent the last 20 years exploring the lives and accomplishments of pivotal figures from American history. As an author and producer for PBS and other networks he has helped create stirring historical documentaries and written companion books to accompany them. In the process he has interviewed many of America's greatest historians and intellectuals, prepared interviews for all of the living presidents, and directed the voices of many of our leading actors and actresses. He is a recognized authority on Abraham Lincoln and on the visual record of his life and times. Kunhardt is co-founder of the Meserve Kunhardt Foundation, whose massive collection of photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries has been deemed an "American Treasure" by the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. A gifted and inspiring public speaker, Kunhardt uses pictures and words to bring history alive and show why it matters today. Kunhardt is currently a Bard Center Fellow in Annandale, New York, where he is teaching on Lincoln in American Memory, and the life and times of Frederick Douglass. Copies of Kunhardt's books may be purchased in the Presidential Museum Gift Shop. Visit www.presidentlincoln.org for more information on exhibits and programs at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. ###