Book description
With a fresh eye and inimitable style, the peerless travel and history writer Jan Morris journeys through the life of Abraham Lincoln to sketch an insightful new portrait of America's sixteenth president, one of our greatest and most enigmatic figures. Looking past his saintly image and log-cabin legend, Morris travels…
Why read it?
1 author picked Lincoln as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved how fresh and lively it was to hear an outsider’s take on an American icon. A British travel writer travels through “Lincoln Country” to figure out how a guy with such humble origins became such a revered figure.
There have been literally thousands of books about Lincoln over the past 150 years. Still, few have been this breezy, and I was especially drawn in by the book's travelogue elements, comparing the small towns of his youth to their modern surroundings.
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