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Lincoln: A Photobiography
Russell Freedman · Grades 5–8
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Freedman’s eye for revealing quotation and image teaches readers to infer character from evidence while keeping a complex public life narratable.
A concise life of Abraham Lincoln uses period photographs, prints, and documents to follow his frontier youth, legal and political ascent, presidency, and assassination.
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Faith and worldview: Moral growth, humor, melancholy, ambition, union, emancipation, and the burden of wartime leadership are held together rather than flattened into civic sainthood.
Slavery, racist ideas, battle deaths, family bereavement, assassination, and archival images of war and mourning are addressed. Because this is a brief 1987 account, supplement its treatment of colonization, Native policy, Black agency, and Mary Lincoln with newer scholarship.
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