Dk biography abraham lincoln summary

I bought this book at the Huntington Library not realizing it was aimed at young readers – my fault!

Summary: This book is broken up into chapters, about the life and childhood of Abraham Lincoln.

Summary: This book is broken up into chapters, about the life and childhood of Abraham Lincoln.

Buy DK Biography Abraham Lincoln: A Photographic Story of a Life By Tanya Lee Stone.

Find out about Lincoln's childhood on a frontier farm, how a struggling small town lawyer became president, and why he became one of America's most revered.

Find out about Lincoln's childhood on a frontier farm, how a struggling small town lawyer became president, and why he became one of Ame Read full overview.

Abraham Lincoln was America's most popular President ever.

The use of "Abraham" and "Mary" to refer to Mr and Mrs Lincoln, when talking about their marriage, was a bit off-putting but understandable.

This is not a bad introduction to Lincoln's life for young readers. It appears to be well researched, with an extensive bibliography and list of sources cited.

However, a few glaring errors should be noted for future editions:

• p. 52 Abolitionist Charles Sumner, beaten to within an inch of his life by a congressman from South Carolina, was of course a Northern, not a Southern senator (!)

• p.

86 Not sure why a contraction has been introduced into the Gettysburg address ("We're met on a great battlefield ...")

• p. 100 the text is discussing the Hampton Roads peace conference, but the illustration is of the "Peacemakers" meeting between Union generals Grant and Sherman, Lincoln, and Admiral Porter