Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the founding—Washington, Paine, Jefferson—and their great documents—the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution—for knowledge, guidance, inspiration, and purpose. Out of the power vacuum created by their passing, Lincoln emerged from among his peers as the true inheritor of the Founders’ mantle, bringing their vision to bear on the Civil War and the question of slavery.

Gates dispenses his lessons respectably. For the most part, he places Lincoln correctly in these different groups and along these different measures, even though it requires conceding that Lincoln fell far short of our own conceptions of justice and humanity. Amid the current bicentennial emoting, it is refreshing to read an evaluation of Lincoln that refuses, as Gates writes, to 'romanticize him as the first American president completely to transcend race and racism.'

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Abraham Lincoln grew up on the crude, brawling American frontier. He fought, wrestled and swung an ax as well as any man. He went to school less than a year in all his life. Yet, the homely, gawky, unschooled boy of the log cabin grew up to be President of the United States. As President he saved the Union from destruction during the bloody, tragic years of the civil war.

Edward Lincoln isn't a detective, but he plays one in the many popular films he's starred in over the course of his successful career. So when his godmother asks him to look into a mystery surrounding her fatigued race horses, Lincoln soon learns the wide and deadly gap between life and art.
Narrated by Tony Britton

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