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Publishers Summary
In the winter of 1860-61, the United States, less than a century old, fell apart, divided by differing attitudes to slavery. Four years later, at a cost of 600,000 lives, the bloodiest war in history had secured the Union and slavery was abolished. Throughout, Lincoln was the lynchpin of this pivotal change in the nation. This short biography tells the story of how Abraham Lincoln, born in a log cabin and almost entirely self-educated, rose, in the nation's gravest hour, to determine its fate, only to die at the hands of an assassin in the moment of victory.
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ISIS Audio Books
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