Lincoln: A Photobiography

"If I go down in history for anything, it will be for this."

Lincoln: A Photobiography
By:Russell Freedman
Copyright 1987
Clarion Books
Non-Fiction Biography
Middle School Age
150 Pages

An interesting and well done biography of Abraham Lincoln with lots of pictures.  There is nothing in this book that does not have proof that something did or did not happen.  There are many interesting facts about Lincoln that most people do not know.  This is getting into his life, not just the frount that everyone saw him as.  There is more to a person then being the President of the U.S. and this book show that.  Lincoln was human, he has strengths and he had weaknesses, he had joys and sorrows, he even had self esteem issuses.  This was a great man who had hopes and dreams and great ambitions.  He went to school off and on and probly all together only got about a year of schooling, but you would never know that by hearing him speak or seeing all the great he did.  He was a funny man too, or well, he would tell jokes and anticdotes and no matter how many times he told the joke we would laugh just the same as if it was the first time tellingor hearing the joke.  He was human, a worker, a man, a husband, and a father all before he was the president.  He loved his family and his two boys who he believed could do no wrong.  He was anti-slavery and he had to be president through that had time of the nation splitting and trying to bring the nation back together and get through a war.  He had many firsts for the contry, and it was not easy.  You can see it in how he aged over his term as president.  So many people died, and he had to deal with the people and just so much pain, because as the president, everything is your fault.  This was at the time the most blodiest thing that ever happened, americans killing american and so many people who didnt truly understand what war really was.  The story that we all know, when Lincoln was killed, murdered while watching a play with his wife and his body guards not doing their job, they were down stairs watching the play.  Many morned the death of our president in many ways, even going out and watching the train pass by and also celibrated his life and all the good he did.  Abraham Lincoln did lots in his life, and was human.

I would recomend this book to anyone, teachers to use when teaching about Lincoln.  It is interesting and there was so much that I had no idea about.

I dont think that there was anything wrong with this book.

I enjoyed this story.  It was interesting and I learned a lot.