Abraham Lincoln

Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson illuminates the life of Abraham Lincoln in this first short biography of America''s sixteenth president. McPherson follows the son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks from their Kentucky farm to the Illinois legislature, and finally the nation''s capitol. February 2009 marks the bicentennial of his birth and this book is a compact, concise history of a man with big ideals and an even larger legacy.