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    Abraham Lincoln

    A Life

    Part of Penguin Lives

    Author Thomas Keneally
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    Paperback
    $27.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    5.1"W x 7.1"H x 0.54"D   | 5 oz | 72 per carton
    On sale Dec 30, 2008 | 192 Pages | 9780143114758
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    The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth

    The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he, really? In this outstanding biography, award-winning author Thomas Keneally follows Lincoln from his impoverished birth through his education and presidency. From the development of his political philosophy to his troubled family life and his actions during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is an incisive study of a turning point in our history and a revealing portrait of a pivotal figure.
    "Keneally's excellent brief biography benefits from the compression and from the dramatic value of crisp wording and sharpness of detail."
    -The New York Times Book Review
    © Marcia Ciriello
    Thomas Keneally has won international acclaim for his novels Schindler's List (the basis for the movie and the winner of the Booker Prize), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Confederates, Gossip from the Forest, The Playmaker, Woman of the Inner Sea, A River Town, Office of Innocence, and The Tyrant’s Novel. His most recent works of nonfiction are Searching for Schindler, A Commonwealth of Thieves, The Great Shame, and American Scoundrel. He resides in Sydney, Australia. View titles by Thomas Keneally

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    The ideal concise biography of an American icon- now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth

    The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr-Lincoln's story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he, really? In this outstanding biography, award-winning author Thomas Keneally follows Lincoln from his impoverished birth through his education and presidency. From the development of his political philosophy to his troubled family life and his actions during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is an incisive study of a turning point in our history and a revealing portrait of a pivotal figure.

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    "Keneally's excellent brief biography benefits from the compression and from the dramatic value of crisp wording and sharpness of detail."
    -The New York Times Book Review

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    © Marcia Ciriello
    Thomas Keneally has won international acclaim for his novels Schindler's List (the basis for the movie and the winner of the Booker Prize), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Confederates, Gossip from the Forest, The Playmaker, Woman of the Inner Sea, A River Town, Office of Innocence, and The Tyrant’s Novel. His most recent works of nonfiction are Searching for Schindler, A Commonwealth of Thieves, The Great Shame, and American Scoundrel. He resides in Sydney, Australia. View titles by Thomas Keneally

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