Abraham Lincoln Hardcover - 2003
by Keneally, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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.
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- Title Abraham Lincoln
- Author Keneally, Thomas
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking, New York
- Date 2003
- Bookseller's Inventory # BOOKS063264I
- ISBN 9780670031757 / 0670031755
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.68 x 5.7 x 0.76 in (19.51 x 14.48 x 1.93 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Presidents - United States, Lincoln, Abraham
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003268078
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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