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Authors: Russell Freedman
ISBN-13: 9780395518489, ISBN-10: 0395518482
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: September 1989
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Russell Freedman

Russell Freedman received the Newbery Medal for LINCOLN: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY. He is also the recipient of three Newbery Honors, a National Humanities Medal, the Sibert Medal, the Orbis Pictus Award, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and was selected to give the 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. Mr. Freedman lives in New York City and travels widely to research his books.

Book Synopsis

A description of the boyhood, marriage, and young professional life of Abraham Lincoln includes his presidential years and also reflects on the latest scholarly thoughts about our Civil War president. A Newberry Medal Book.

Publishers Weekly

This Newbery Award-winning study of our 16th president is highly readable and meticulously organized. In a boxed review, PW hailed it as a ``superb, encompassing account'' of ``an intriguing, recognizable human being.'' Ages 8-12. (Sept.)

Table of Contents

1The Mysterious Mr. Lincoln1
2A Backwoods Boy7
3Law and Politics27
4Half Slave and Half Free45
5Emancipation67
6This Dreadful War93
7Who Is Dead in the White House?119
A Lincoln Sampler133
In Lincoln's Footsteps138
Books About Lincoln142
Acknowledgments and Picture Credits144
Index146

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