The Flip: a bond that formed historical past (Abraham Lincoln’s Human Story)

A novel based mostly on true occasions — William Johnson was by no means Lincoln’s shadow. He was his mirror.

As Lincoln’s private barber and valet, Johnson didn’t affect the President by whispering into his ear, he was the residing embodiment of the value paid attempting to maintain the Union collectively, a day by day reminder that half measures had been an insult to humanity. As a result of calculating the price of peace is not possible, the place people enter the equation. — Jenn C.

After escaping slavery, twenty-five-year-old William Henry Johnson goes to the nation’s capital as Abraham Lincoln’s valet, hoping the brand new president will assist him reunite his household. However when Lincoln chooses an expedient peace over freedom, Johnson’s hopes and the warfare for emancipation could also be doomed—except Johnson can flip him from long-held prejudices and persuade him to embrace equality. Altering Lincoln’s coronary heart and thoughts comes at a extreme worth.

Amid a lot controversy over the legacies of historic figures, comes a novel that explores Lincoln’s complicated and evolving views on slavery, emancipation, abolition, and racial equality. However greater than a Lincoln novel, it’s the forgotten story of a younger man who possible influenced Lincoln greater than any celebrated abolitionist when it got here to his flip from segregationist to champion of freedom and equality for all.