"MY CHILDHOOD'S HOME" Growing Up with Young Lincoln tells the real story of how this great American hero grew up and became a man.  Beginning with the murder of Abe's grandfather in 1782 by the Wabash Indians in the Kentucky wilderness, it ends as Lincoln turns twenty-five, downcast and debt-ridden after the failure of his first business venture, he earns his first election victory to take his seat in the Illinois State legislature.

The story is told by those most qualified to tell it—the men and women who were there. We see a very human Abraham Lincoln, according to friend Billy Herndon, "just as he lived, breathed, ate and laughed in this world."

The title "MY CHILDHOOD'S HOME" comes from the opening line of an original Lincoln poem. Lincoln explained the circumstances that inspired his poem. "I went into the neighborhood where my mother and only sister were buried and from which I had been absent about fifteen years," he said. "Aroused feelings in me which were certainly poetry—though whether my expression of those feelings is poetry is quite another question."

Here is biography at its purest, supported by rigorous research, meticulously annotated, featuring the most recent Lincoln scholarship. "MY CHILDHOOD'S HOME" offers an in-depth look at his formative years in detailed authentic eyewitness testimony unmatched in all Lincoln literature.