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Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Fortitude and Liberation for Curious Kids and History Buffs

Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Fortitude and Liberation for Curious Kids and History Buffs

Paperback

Series: Bedrock

Military BiographiesPresidents & Heads of StateCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN13: 9798195119904
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What does it take for a man born on a dirt floor with less than a year of formal schooling to hold the most powerful nation on earth together during the worst crisis in its history?

What kind of mind, sharpened entirely by firelight and borrowed books, produces words so precise and so human that they are still quoted, still memorized and still capable of moving people to tears more than one hundred and fifty years after the man who wrote them was killed in a theater seat?

This is not the Abraham Lincoln you were handed in school. This is the full man, unfiltered and unflinching, told with the depth and honesty his story has always deserved and rarely received. You will be taken from the raw poverty of a Kentucky log cabin in 1809 all the way to the corridors of the White House during the bloodiest war in American history.

Across ten richly detailed chapters, you will follow a boy who lost his mother at nine, taught himself law by firelight, fell in and out of love, failed in business, lost elections and fought through episodes of depression so severe they frightened the people around him, only to rise and become the one person history needed in the one moment that mattered most.

This book does not simplify Abraham Lincoln. It brings him closer. His humor, his grief, his moral struggles, his extraordinary patience and his absolute refusal to quit are all here, rendered with the kind of narrative energy that makes history feel alive rather than archived.

And because great history deserves complete history, this book comes with two powerful bonus sections.

# BONUS 1: MYTHS VS FACTS ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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