Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln

Forsideomslag
Macmillan, 2001 - 478 sider
A stunning work of historical imagination, Abe immerses the reader in the past Abraham Lincoln kept hidden: the isolating poverty and frontier violence that shaped his character. Marked by the death of his beloved mother and the struggle to keep reading and learning in the face of his father's fierce disapproval, Abe perseveres, growing into the man who changed the course of American history.

Abe comes of age in the course of a dramatic flatboat journey down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans. Along the way, Abe and his companions encounter slavery firsthand and experience the violence -- and the pleasures -- of rough river towns, plantations, and the cities of Natchez and New Orleans. Numerous historical figures make appearances alongside the colorful characters of the Mississippi: preachers and vigilantes, planters and thieves, prostitutes and lady reformers. Transformed by what he has seen and done, Abe returns to make his final break with his father and to step out of the wilderness into New Salem -- and history.

Richard Slotkin's Abe draws deeply on historical scholarship, but it is not biography. Instead, it is a vivid, persuasive re-creation of the life young Lincoln might have lived, and of the people, scenes, and influences that helped produce the character and conscience of the man often called the greatest of all Americans.

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My Home Is over Jordan
3
Uncle Mordecai
21
The War Against the Trees
37
The Pigeon Massacre
55
The Bear
75
MilkSick
95
The Kingdom of Pap
109
Hiring Out
129
The Crossroads
269
The Dead Reaches
285
The ScrootchOwl
303
The Trial
329
City upon a Hill
345
Burning Bush
363
Theatre dOrleans
381
The Bottom of the River
397

Tom Lincolns Boy
143
The Landing
161
The Judge
181
Father of Waters
205
Queen of the Nile
227
The Greatest Actor in the EnglishSpeaking World
251
Homecoming
415
The Republic
427
The Candidate
455
Afterword
477
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Richard Slotkin is the Olin Professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of "Gunfighter Nation" and "Regeneration Through Violence," both National Book Award finalists, and "The Crater," a novel.

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