"An eloquent work. Its authority comes both from its esthetic - photographs speak more powerfully today than paintings - and from the sophistication with which Mr. Freedman's text combines personal and public lives into a human portrait of a politician honorably confronting the most vexing issues of his era. From the opening page, which depicts Lincoln in beak-nosed profile...to the homely inventory of the assassinated President's pockets...this biography feels astonishingly real."-The New York Times Book Review. Includes an Index.

(Key Words: Abraham Lincoln, United States History, Biography, Photography, United States Presidents, United States Civil War, Slavery, Juvenile Literature, Springfield, Illinois, Mary Todd Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Emancipation Proclamation, John Wilkes Booth).