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Summary: Growing up poor in the backwoods of Kentucky and Indiana, Abraham Lincoln lost his mother before he was ten. But Sally Johnston, who married Abe's father a year later, brought a library of books to their log cabin home and turned young Abe's life around.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 LINDenenberg, Barry.
Summary: Conceived as a one-year anniversary newspaper edition of Lincoln's assassination, this brilliant, beautiful, and bold biographical portrait of Abraham Lincoln mimics 19th-century newsprint, combining pen and ink drawings with archival photography, and period typography with articles surveying Lincoln's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINRaum, Elizabeth.
Summary: A biography on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and his roles in the Civil War and the Great Emancipation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINBrands, H. W.
Summary: "What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020