Winner of the 2015 Gilder-Lehman Lincoln Prize, Harold Holzer is one of the nation’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. A prolific writer and lecturer, as well as a frequent guest on television, Holzer served for six years (2010–2016) as chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. During the previous decade, he co-chaired the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, appointed by President Clinton. President Bush awarded Holzer the National Humanities Medal in 2008. And in 2013, Holzer wrote an essay on Lincoln for the official program of the second inauguration of President Obama. He is now co-chairman of The Lincoln Forum. His new book is “The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media—from the Founding Fathers to Fake News” (Dutton).
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