"Rarely does a biography so robustly engage the audience's emotions."
-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Historians claim him as one of America's most revered presidents. But to
his rambunctious sons, Abraham Lincoln was above all a playful and
loving father. Here is Lincoln as seen by two of his boys. With the war
raging and the Union under siege, we see history unfolding through
Willie's eyes and then through Tad's--and we see Lincoln rising above
his own inborn sadness and personal tragedy through his devotion to his
sons. With evocative and engaging illustrations by P.J. Lynch, Rosemary
Wells's carefully researched biography gives us a Lincoln not frozen in
time but accessible and utterly real.