Honors

* The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2005
* The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A Dozen Non-Fiction Books That Mattered
*The Washington Post: The Best Books of 2005

Notable Miscellany

* The Presidents & Lincoln’s Melancholy, 2/06
* Shenk Noticed in History Channel’s “Lincoln,” The New York Times, January 16, 2006 (Of the dozen authors (mostly biographers) who comment on those elements of Lincoln's life, Joshua Wolf Shenk summarizes them best. Mr. Shenk … says: “He was someone who, according to those who knew him best and according to himself, was different. He suffered more, hurt more, struggled more. That was a big part of who Lincoln was. And we can't know him without knowing that.“)

Interviews

* With Robert Siegel, All Things Considered, 10/26/05
* With Leonard Lopate, WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show, 11/28/05
* With Katie Bacon, The Atlantic Monthly’s Atlantic Unbound, September 26, 2005
* With Connie Doebele, C-SPAN’s Book TV, 12/10/05
* With Robin Young, WBUR’s Here & Now, 11/10/05
* With Dr. Dan Gottleib, Voices in the Family, 11/14/05
* With Dr. John Riolo, Psychjourney
* With Edie Rubinowitz, WBEZ Chicago

Reviews

* New York, October 17, 2005, by Andrew Solomon (“A shapely and insightful exegesis of the Civil War president’s inner life…  a kind and admiring book …  measured and honest.… It leaves one feeling close to Lincoln, a considerable accomplishment given that few people felt close to Lincoln even when he was alive.”

* The Chicago Tribune, December 11, 2005, by David W. Blight (“Shenk develops this story thoroughly and persuasively … engaging … insightful.”)

* The San Francisco Chronicle, November 27, 2005, by Sanford D. Horwitt (“fresh, fascinating, provocative… Thanks to Shenk’s own Lincoln-like sensitivity and sagacious commentary, we have a new perspective for understanding not only one of our most important political figures, but also for re-thinking our assumptions about mental health.”)

* The New York Sun, October 24, 2005, by Adam Kirsch (“a humane book with a wise message.”)

* The Washington Monthly, December 2005, by Allen Guelzo

* The Washington Post, October 2, 2005, by William Lee Miller (“Intellectually energetic.... Poignant .... By treating Lincoln from this angle, Shenk gains a dimension that not all Lincoln books achieve: Looking at his subject’s darkness also means approaching his depth.”

* The New Yorker, November 7, 2005, by Caleb Crain

* The New York Times, October 23, 2005, by Patricia Cohen

* Psychology Today, September/October, 2005

Essays

* “The Depression Wars,” by Field Maloney, Slate, November 3, 2005 (“Shenk is using the cover of presidential biography to hunt bigger game: namely, the certainties of our 21st-century psychiatric establishment and its narrowly clinical view of depression.”)