The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in
paperback for the bicentennial of his birth
The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator,
the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart
of American history. But who was he, really? In this outstanding
biography, award-winning author Thomas Keneally follows Lincoln from his
impoverished birth through his education and presidency. From the
development of his political philosophy to his troubled family life and
his actions during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is an incisive study
of a turning point in our history and a revealing portrait of a pivotal
figure.