Abraham Lincoln: A Life from Starting to Finish (Biographies of US Presidents)

Abraham Lincoln’s willpower to carry the North and South collectively would finally result in the bloodiest warfare in American historical past, the abolition of slavery, and his personal premature dying from an murderer’s bullet. However to see Lincoln solely as a tragic determine consumed with the strife of mid-nineteenth century America is to overlook assembly him as a person who by no means allowed himself to be defeated by adversity or grief or turmoil. From his earliest days on the frontier, he endured the lack of his beloved mom and the demanding bodily challenges of a rough-and-ready land the place dying got here simply and training was uncommon; the place ambition was rewarded if a person proved himself keen to work exhausting; the place love was attainable, even for a person whose bodily look was most charitably described as homely.

Inside you’ll examine…

✓ Born on the Frontier

✓ Lincoln’s Life in New Salem

✓ The Election of 1860

✓ The Home Divides

✓ The Tide Turns

✓ The Finish

✓ The Legacy of Lincoln

Lincoln arose from poverty and ignorance to turn into a person of affect and eloquence whose speeches proceed to resonate with a nation that aspires to satisfy his beliefs. Lincoln had his detractors and enemies however all through his years, he had a outstanding potential to stay unpoisoned by his foes and to retain compassion for many who opposed him. Meet Abraham Lincoln, the frontier president whose dying made him a martyr however whose life made him a hero.