Becoming Abraham Lincoln: The Coming of Age of Our Greatest President

Becoming Abraham Lincoln: The Coming of Age of Our Greatest President tells the true story of how this great American hero grew up and became a man. The story begins with Lincoln's cousin describing the murder of Abe's grandfather in 1782 by the Wabash Indians in the Kentucky wilderness. I...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richard Kigel
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York Skyhorse Publishing 2017
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Childhood and youth. Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Political career before 1861. Presidents > United States > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "I saw him this morning about 8:30"
  • "My good friend is gone"
  • "I have heard much of this blessed good woman"
  • "Injuns!"
  • "Purty as a pitcher."
  • "Nancy's got a boy baby."
  • "It was a wild region."
  • "Constantly handling that most useful instrument."
  • "I am going away from you, Abraham"
  • "Here's your new Mammy"
  • "Land o'Goshen, that boy air a' growin'"
  • "A real eddication"
  • "Mighty darned good lies"
  • "Somethin' peculiarsome"
  • "Chronicles of Reuben"
  • "Why dost thou tear more blest ones hence?"
  • "I can see the quivering and shining of that half-dollar yet"
  • "River man"
  • "Snowbirds"
  • "I found him no green horn"
  • "I'll hit it hard"
  • "A kind of driftwood"
  • "The best feller that ever broke into this settlement"
  • "Something that was knotty"
  • "I am young and unknown"
  • "They surely thought it was a dream"
  • "Captain Abraham Lincoln's Company of the First Regiment of the Brigade of Volunteers"
  • "Charges upon the wild onions...bloody struggles with the mosquitoes"
  • "The only time I ever have been beaten"
  • "The national debt"
  • "I loved the woman dearly and sacredly"
  • "Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?"
  • "Did you vote for me?"

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