Question: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery is a historical non-fiction book written by which American historian born on February 7, 1943?
Context: Harold Holzer (born February 5, 1949) is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the American Civil War Era.  He won the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and four other awards in 2015 for his book, "Lincoln and the Power of the Press".  Holzer served for nine years as co-chairman of the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC), appointed to the commission by President Bill Clinton in 2000 and elected co-chair by his fellow commissioners.  In June 2010, he was elected chairman of the ALBC's successor organization, The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation, which he led through 2016.  In his professional career, Holzer serves as the Jonathan F. Fanton Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.  He retired in 2015 as Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where for 23 years he was chief spokesman and held responsibility for government relations, admissions, visitor services, and multicultural audience development at the nation's largest art institution.  He is now a Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum, representing the New York City Comptroller.  From 2012 to 2015, Holzer served as well as a Roger Hertog Fellow at the New-York Historical Society.  In 2016-17 he served as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at The Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University.  He was also a script consultant to the Steven Spielberg film, "Lincoln", and wrote the official young readers' companion book to the movie. Charles F. Price (born 1938 in Clyde, North Carolina, USA) is an American novelist and historical non-fiction writer whose work covers topics ranging from the Crusades to the American Revolution, to North Carolina in the American Civil War, and to the Texas and Colorado Wild West.  Featured writer for the 2009 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Authors on the Road Program and winner of the 1999 Sir Walter Raleigh Literary Award, a list which includes fellow North Carolinians Reynolds Price (no relation), John Ehle, Ron Rash and Charles Frazier, Price has published five novels, four e-books, one book-length work of historical non-fiction, as well as numerous magazine articles about Western gun fighters.  He is also a painter, illustrator, and sculptor in clay. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties is a 1992 book by American historian Mark E. Neely, Jr., published by Oxford University Press.  The book examines President Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus and other rights during the American Civil War. Eugene Dominic Genovese (May 19, 1930 – September 26, 2012) was an American historian of the American South and American slavery.  He was noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and slaves in the South.  His book "Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made" won the Bancroft Prize.  He later abandoned the left and Marxism and embraced traditionalist conservatism. Harry Carman (January 22, 1884 – December 26, 1964) was an American historian.  Having attended Syracuse University followed by studies at Columbia, he became a professor at the latter, and served from 1943 to 1950 he served as its Dean.  During his tenure as Dean, Carman was a strong supporter of the college within the university, particularly of its Core Curriculum.  One of his most notable students was Jacques Barzun.  Noted Historian and famous author of Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Reinhard H. Luthin, Fulbright Scholar and Columbia Professor, collaborated with Dean Carman to create "Lincoln and the Patronage". Do and Die : The Chittagong Uprising 1930–34 is a 1999 historical non-fiction book written by the Indian author Manini Chatterjee.  The book tells the real-life story of revolutionary leader Surya Sen and his role in the Chittagong armoury raid. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln is a 2005 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, published by Simon & Schuster.  The book is a biographical portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and some of the men who served with him in his cabinet from 1861 to 1865.  Three of his Cabinet members had previously run against Lincoln in the 1860 election: Attorney General Edward Bates, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase and Secretary of State William H. Seward.  The book focuses on Lincoln's mostly successful attempts to reconcile conflicting personalities and political factions on the path to abolition and victory in the American Civil War. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery is a historical non-fiction book written by American historian Eric Foner.  Published in 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company, the book serves as a biographical portrait of United States President Abraham Lincoln, discussing the evolution of his stance on slavery in the United States over the course of his life. Don Edward Fehrenbacher (August 21, 1920 in Sterling, Illinois – December 13, 1997 in Palo Alto, California) was an American historian.  He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln.  He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for "", his book about the Dred Scott Decision.  In 1977 David M. Potter's "The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861", which he edited and completed, won the Pulitzer Prize.  In 1997 he won the Lincoln Prize. Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943) is an American historian.  He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography, and has been a member of the faculty at the Columbia University Department of History since 1982.  Foner is a leading contemporary historian of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, having published "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877" in 1989 and more than 10 other books on the topic.  His free online courses on "The Civil War and Reconstruction," published in 2014, are available from Columbia University on ColumbiaX.
Answer: Eric Foner