Authors: Russell Freedman
ISBN-13: 9780395518489, ISBN-10: 0395518482
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: September 1989
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
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.
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.)
1 | The Mysterious Mr. Lincoln | 1 |
2 | A Backwoods Boy | 7 |
3 | Law and Politics | 27 |
4 | Half Slave and Half Free | 45 |
5 | Emancipation | 67 |
6 | This Dreadful War | 93 |
7 | Who Is Dead in the White House? | 119 |
A Lincoln Sampler | 133 | |
In Lincoln's Footsteps | 138 | |
Books About Lincoln | 142 | |
Acknowledgments and Picture Credits | 144 | |
Index | 146 |