Lincoln: A Photobiography (Houghton Mifflin social research)

On this gripping account of the boyhood, marriage, and younger skilled lifetime of Abraham Lincoln, award-winning author Russell Freedman brings to life the presidential years, scholarly ideas and reflections of the Civil Battle president. Winner of the 1988 Newbery Medal.

This 1988 Newbery Medal-winning biography of our Civil Battle president is heat, interesting, and illustrated with dozens of fastidiously chosen images and prints. Russell Freedman begins with a energetic account of Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood, his profession as a rustic lawyer, and his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd. Then the creator focuses on the presidential years (1861 to 1865), skillfully explaining the various advanced points Lincoln grappled with as he led a deeply divided nation by the Civil Battle. The e book’s closing chapter is a transferring account of that tragic night in Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865. Extra content material features a sampling of Lincoln’s writings and an in depth checklist of Lincoln historic websites.