The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Chapter 1 - A President's Childhood
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Chapter 2 - Captain Lincoln
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Chapter 3 - Lawyer Lincoln
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Chapter 4 - Congressman Lincoln
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Chapter 5 - The Champion of Freedom
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Chapter 6 - The New President
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Chapter 7 - Lincoln And The War
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Chapter 8 - Unsuccessful Generals
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Chapter 9 - Freedom For The Slaves
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Chapter 10 - The Man Who Was President
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Chapter 11 - The Turning Point Of The Way
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Chapter 12 - The Conquerer Of A Great Rebellion
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Chapter 13 - The Fourthteenth of April
33:08
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One small incident, a child giving his catch to a passing soldier, brings Abraham Lincoln's Kentucky boyhood into focus. Helen Nicolay writes this biography for young readers, beginning with a family living in poverty and moving west in search of a better home. Early schooling, woodland play, and the work of clearing an Indiana farm give the opening its concrete details. Lincoln's childhood emerges through the daily demands of frontier life.
Later chapters turn to his legal career, the presidency, and the Civil War. The wartime excerpt shows Lincoln waiting anxiously for troops to reach Washington as volunteers gather and government departments struggle to equip them. Food, pay, clothing, training, and transport all become urgent concerns, alongside decisions about constitutional authority. For readers of American history, these scenes offer a way to approach national leadership through specific responsibilities and moments of private worry, within an account shaped for a younger audience.
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Book facts
- Author
- Helen Nicolay
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 102
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American History
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Tom Weiss