Abraham Lincoln (Penguin Lives)

Author: Thomas Keneally List Price: $19.95 You save: USD 12.75 (63%) Buy new: $7.20 Buy used: $0.01 Avg.Rating: ( reviews) Sales rank: 482703 Qty: 72 in stock Media: Edition: First Edition Reading Level: Pages: 192 Number Of Items: Shipping Weight (lbs): 55 Dimensions (in): 540 x 750 x 90 ISBN: 0670031755 EAN: 9780670031757 ASIN: 0670031755 Publication Date: 2002-12-30

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This self-made man from a log cabin-the great orator, the Emancipator, the savior of the Union, the martyr-was arguably our greatest president; but it takes a master storyteller like Thomas Keneally, author of the award-winning novel that inspired the film Schindler's List, to bring alive the history behind the myth. Acclaimed for his recent Civil War biography, American Scoundrel, Keneally delves with relish-and a keen, fresh eye-into Lincoln's complicated persona.

Abraham Lincoln depicts all the amazing man's triumphs, insecurities, and crushing defeats with uncanny insight: his early poverty and the ambition that propelled him out of it; the shaping of the man and his political philosophy by youthful exposure to Christianity, slavery, and business; his tempestuous marriage and his fatherly love. We see him, elected to the presidency by a twist of fate, unswerving in the grim day-to-day conduct of the war as his vision and acumen led the country forward. Abraham Lincoln is an incisive study of a turning point in our history and a revealing portrait of its pivotal figure, his greatness etched even more clearly in this very touching human story.