LINCOLN

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue - The Man in the Chair
2. Chapter One - The Myth, The Mud, and the Making of a Man
3. Chapter Two - Law, Love, and Long Legs
4. Chapter Three - The Whispers of War
5. Chapter Four - The Election That Tore the World
6. Chapter Five - Secession, Speeches, and Holding the Line
7. Chapter Six - Bull Run and the Bloody Wake-Up Call
8. Chapter Seven - Changing the War, One Signature at a Time
9. Chapter Eight - Gettysburg and the Weight of Words
10. Chapter Nine - Grant, Sherman, and the New Rules of War
11. Chapter Ten - Hanging by a Thread
12. Chapter Eleven - The End Begins
13. Chapter Twelve - A Shot, a Scream, and the Silence That Followed
14. Chapter Thirteen - The Ghost in the Marble

Excerpt

PROLOGUE - THE MAN IN THE CHAIR THE PLAY WAS fine. Kinda funny. A little dated. But hey, it beat another night at the War Office. Lincoln wasn’t even supposed to be here — he’d been working himself half to death for four years straight. But Mary asked, and he said yes. He needed the break. America had just barely survived ripping itself in half. Richmond had fallen. Lee had surrendered. The Union held. For the first time in years, Abraham Lincoln could breathe. So there he sat, slouched a little in his chair, long legs folded awkward, watching Our American Cousin from the presidential box. The man looked older than his 56 years — more bone than flesh, all shadow and sharpness. His face...