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Also by Nancy Horan:

The House of Lincoln, February 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The House of Lincoln, June 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Under The Wide And Starry Sky, February 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Loving Frank, April 2008
Paperback
Loving Frank, August 2007
Hardcover

The House of Lincoln
Nancy Horan

Sourcebooks Landmark
June 2023
On Sale: June 6, 2023
352 pages
ISBN: 172826054X
EAN: 9781728260549
Kindle: B0BG9G4YF7
Hardcover / e-Book
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Other Editions
Trade Paperback (February 2024)

Women's Fiction Historical

"Strong on fine detail yet cognizant of the expansive historical context, Horan's newest is wonderfully immersive, memorable, important, and pertinent." —Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with The House of Lincoln, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. President to Great Emancipator and presents Lincoln's Midwestern home as a complex third home front of the Civil War.

Rich with historical detail, The House of Lincoln is an insightful account of Lincoln's transformative vision for democracy as observed through the eyes of a young immigrant who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield, Illinois from Madeira, Portugal.

Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, fourteen-year-old Ana Ferreira is offered a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and with the hosting duties borne by the wife of a rising political star. Ana bears witness to the evolution of Lincoln's views on equality and the Union and observes in full complexity the psyche and pain of his bold, polarizing wife, Mary. Yet, alongside her dearest friend in the Black community, Ana confronts the racial prejudice her friend encounters daily as she watches the inner workings of the Underground Railroad, and directly experiences how slavery contradicts the promise of freedom in her adopted country.

Culminating in an account of the little-known Springfield race riot of 1908, The House of Lincoln takes readers on a journey through the historic changes that reshaped America and continue to reverberate today.

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