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Biographies of the Editors and Contributors MARIO M. CUOMO was elected the fifty-second governor of New York in 1982, and reelected in 1986 by the widest margin in the state's history. The governor has devoted his administration to the themes of "jobs and justice" for all New Yorkers, and among its accomplishments have been the creation of more than one million new jobs, farsighted investments to rebuild the state's vast infrastructure , and establishment of the lowest state tax rates in twenty years. In addition, Governor Cuomo gained widespread recognition as one ofthis generation 's great public speakers after his eloquent keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention. He has since delivered two widely acclaimed addresses on Lincoln: at the Abraham Lincoln Association in Springfield , Illinois, in 1985, and at the national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania , in 1989, in both of which he exhorted Americans to complete Lincoln's "unfinished work." The governor is the author of two books: Forest Hills Diary: The Crisis of Low-Income Housing (1974) and Diaries of Mario M Cuomo: The Campaign for Governor (1983). He has also published The Cuomo Commission Report: A New American Formula for a Strong Economy (1988). HAROLD HOLZER is the coauthor of The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print (1984), Changing the Lincoln Image (1985), The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause (1987), and The Lincoln Family Album (1990). He has also written two pamphlets on Lincoln and more than 150 articles in newspapers, magazines, and historical journals, and has lectured widely on the subject throughout the United States and in England. Among his awards for his Lincoln writings are the Barondess Award of the Civil War Round Table, the Diploma of Honor from Lincoln Memorial University, and the Award of Achievement from the Lincoln Group of New York. Holzer serves in the Cuomo administration as special counselor to the director of economic development. He lives in Rye, New York. 396 BIOGRAPHIES OF THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS GABOR S. BORITT is Robert C. Fluhrer Distinguished Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. In addition to coauthoring The Lincoln Image, Changing the Lincoln Image, and The Confederate Image, the Hungarian-born Boritt wrote Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream, a pathfinding examination of Lincoln's views on "the right to rise," published in 1978. More recently he served as editor of The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History (1988) and The Historian's Lincoln: Rebuttals . .. (1988). Professor Boritt lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. RICHARD NELSON CURRENT is University Distinguished Professor ofHistory Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Universally acknowledged to be the dean of Lincoln scholars in America, he was awarded the prestigious Logan Hay Medal by the Abraham Lincoln Association in 1989. A former president of the Southern Historical Association, Professor Current has taught and lectured at universities and colleges throughout the worldeven in Antarctica-including a term as Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford. He is coauthor ofLincoln the President: Last Full Measure (1955), winner of the Bancroft Prize. Among his eighteen other major books are The Lincoln Nobody Knows (1958), Lincoln and the First Shot (1962), and Speaking of Abraham Lincoln: The Man and His Meaning for Our Times (1983). Professor Current lives in South Natick, Massachusetts. WILLIAM E. GIENAPP recently joined the faculty of Harvard University as Professor of History after eight years at the University of Wyoming in Laramie . He is the author of The Origins of the Republican Party, 1854-1856 (1987). More recently he wrote chapters covering the years 1789 to 1877 for Nation ofNations: A Narrative History ofthe United States. Professor Gienapp is currently at work on two major efforts: Republican Crisis, a book on the political realignment of the 1850s, and a new biography of Abraham Lincoln. He lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts. JAMES M. MCPHERSON is Edwards Professor of History at Princeton University . He won the Pulitzer Prize for history for his bestselling 1988 book, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, the most popular Civil War volume of our generation. Since joining the faculty of Princeton in 1962, Professor McPherson has also acted as Commonwealth Fund Lecturer in American History at the University of London, and has held a number of fellowships. His many books include Marching Toward Freedom: The Negro in the Civil War (1968), The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP (1976), and Ordeal by Fire: The Civil...