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"More words have been written about him than about any other American...How to avoid simply regurgitating familiar facts and shopworn theories?...How to find a fresh approach to the great man?" —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"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." 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. "Richard Kigel has provided an irresistible and inspiring saga of Lincoln’s rise from obscurity to the threshold of greatness. In recalling this eternally enchanting and quintessentially American Story, the book reminds us of the enduring promise of opportunity in a democratic society." — Harold Holzer, leading Lincoln scholar and Co-Chair of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission | |