Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln

Richard Slotkin

Macmillan, 2001 - 478 oldal

A brilliant work of historical imagination, Abe immerses the reader in the isolating poverty and difficult circumstances that shaped Abraham Lincoln's character. Marked by his mother's horrible death and the struggle to keep reading and learning in the face of his father's fierce disapproval, Richard Slotkin's Lincoln comes of age during a dramatic flatboat journey down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans. Along the way, Lincoln and his companions see slavery firsthand and experience the violence -- and the pleasures -- of frontier settlements and the cities of Natchez and New Orleans. Transformed by what he has seen and done, Lincoln returns to make his final break with his father and to step out of the wilderness into New Salem -- and history.

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LibraryThing Review

Felhasználói ismertető  - benuathanasia - LibraryThing

A strange, yet interesting look at what Lincoln's childhood might have been like. Largely fabricated, but it keeps much of the "feel" of Lincoln.

ABE

Felhasználói ismertető  - Kirkus

Historian (Gunfighter Nation, 1992, etc.) and novelist Slotkin (The Return of Henry Starr, 1988; The Crater, 1980) offers an impressively detailed re-creation of the early years of our myth-enshrouded ...

Tartalomjegyzék

• My Home Is over Jordan: 3
• Uncle Mordecai: 21
• The War Against the Trees: 37
• The Pigeon Massacre: 55
• The Bear: 75
• MilkSick: 95
• The Kingdom of Pap: 109
• Hiring Out: 129
• Tom Lincolns Boy: 143
• The Landing: 161
• The Judge: 181
• Father of Waters: 205
• Queen of the Nile: 227
• The Greatest Actor in the EnglishSpeaking World: 251
• The Crossroads: 269
• The Dead Reaches: 285
• The ScrootchOwl: 303
• The Trial: 329
• City upon a Hill: 345
• Burning Bush: 363
• Theatre dOrleans: 381
• The Bottom of the River: 397
• Homecoming: 415
• The Republic: 427
• The Candidate: 455
• Afterword: 477

A szerzőről

Richard Slotkin is the Olin Professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Gunfighter Nation and Regeneration Through Violence, both National Book Award finalists, and The Crater, a novel.

Bibliográfiai információk

• Cím: Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln; John Macrae, Owl Book
• Szerző: Richard Slotkin
• Kiadás: újranyomás, átdolgozott
• Kiadó: Macmillan, 2001
• ISBN: 080506639X, 9780805066395
• Terjedelem: 478 oldal