Harold Holzer is a scholar on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the American Civil War Era.  He serves as co-chairman of the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.  Holzer has authored, co-authored, and edited 35 books, most recently In Lincoln's Hand: His Original Manuscripts with Commentary by Distinguished Americans and Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln which won the 2005 Lincoln Prize.  He lives in Rye, New York.