Previous Abe: A Novel

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“That is the perfect e-book about Abraham Lincoln I’ve ever learn.” – William J. Bennett, former US Secretary of Schooling and writer of The Ebook of Virtues

Previous Abe, the sweeping historic novel from New York Occasions bestselling writer John Cribb, brings America’s biggest president to life the best way no different e-book has earlier than.

Previous Abe is the story of the final 5 years of Abraham Lincoln’s life, essentially the most cataclysmic years in American historical past. We’re at Lincoln’s aspect on each web page as he presses ahead amid catastrophe and fights to avoid wasting the nation.

Starting within the spring of 1860, the story follows Lincoln by way of his election and the calamity of the Civil Warfare. Throughout the warfare, he walks bloody battlefields within the North and the South. He friends down the Potomac River with a spyglass amid terrifying reviews of approaching Accomplice gunboats. Dying stalks him: one summer season night, a would-be murderer fires a shot at him, and the bullet passes by way of his hat.

On the White Home, he weeps over the physique of Willie, his second son to die in childhood. As he tries desperately to carry the Union collectively, he searches for a common who will combat and finds him eventually in Ulysses S. Grant. Amid nationwide and private tragedy, he struggles to seek out which means within the Civil Warfare and produce freedom to Southern slaves.

Central to this biographical novel is a love story—the story of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln’s generally stormy but devoted marriage. Mary’s sturdy will and ambition for her husband have helped drive him to the White Home. However the presidency takes an terrible toll on her, and he or she grows more and more frightened and insecure. Lincoln watches helplessly as she turns into emotionally unstable, and he grasps for tactics to help her.

As Lincoln’s journey unfolds, Previous Abe chronicles the ultimate 5, tumultuous years of his life till his eventual assassination on the peak of energy. Stuffed with epic scenes from American historical past, such because the Gettysburg Deal with and the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, it probes the character and spirit of America. Previous Abe portrays Lincoln not solely as a flesh-and-blood man, however a hero who embodies his nation’s most interesting beliefs, the hero who units the US on observe to turn into an excellent nation.