A Friend of Mr. Lincoln

by Stephen Harrigan

Book Overview

The author of the best-selling The Gates of the Alamo now gives us a galvanizing portrait of Abraham Lincoln during a crucially revealing period of his life, the early Springfield years, when he risked both his sanity and his ethical bearings as he searched for the great destiny he believed to be his. It is Illinois in the 1830s and 1840s. Abraham Lincoln is a circuit-riding lawyer, a member of the state legislature, a man of almost ungovernable ambition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307700674
• ISBN13: 9780307700674
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"