Abraham Lincoln, American Prince: Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause (Wayne Sioni - LP) pats brilliant and blind

brilliant and blind

Based primarily on Lincoln’s own words

Richard Carwardine methodically demonstrates that Lincoln’s funny stories were the means of securing political or personal advantage

with additional focus on lesser-known flash points during the war

Richard Sommers’ Challenges of Command in the Civil War distills six decades of studying the Civil War into two succinct

Abraham Lincoln, American Prince: Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause (Wayne Sioni - LP) pats brilliant and blindby Wayne Soini The relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his two most influential ancestors his mother and "the Virginia planter," a slaveholder, a shadowy grandfather he likely never met is rarely mentioned in Lincoln biographies or in history texts. However, Lincoln, forever linked to the cause of freedom and equality in America, spoke candidly of the planter to his law partner, Billy Herndon, who recalled his words, "My mother inherited his