LINCOLN
The Life and Legacy of America's Greatest PresidentBy Theodore Bentham Ross
Length5h 45m
About this audiobook
**Born in a dirt-floored log cabin. Dead in a borrowed bed five days after saving the Union.** Between those two points lies the most consequential life in American history — and most of us know only the marble version of it.
That's the problem. The Lincoln of the penny and the memorial feels frozen, untouchable, more myth than man. You sense he matters enormously, but the textbook left you with a list of dates and a few quotes, never the flesh-and-blood human who clawed his way up from frontier poverty, battled crippling depression, and out-thought every rival in the room. You want to truly understand the man — and why he still defines what America aspires to be.
This is the book that delivers him.
**LINCOLN: The Life and Legacy of America's Greatest President** brings Abraham Lincoln to vivid, breathing life — from the Kentucky wilderness to Ford's Theatre, told as the gripping human drama it truly was.
**Inside, you will discover:**
* **HOW** a self-taught frontier boy became the president who held a shattering nation together
* **WHY** Lincoln waited on emancipation — and the political genius behind the timing
* **WHAT** made the Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural the greatest speeches ever delivered by a president
* **HOW** he managed a "team of rivals" and finally found the generals who could win the war
* **THE HONEST TRUTH** about Lincoln and race — the evolving, contested legacy still argued today
This isn't a dusty monument. It's the real Lincoln — ambitious, funny, grief-stricken, and brilliant — the life and legacy of America's greatest president, restored in full.
Stop settling for the statue. Meet the man.
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Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, Historical Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length5 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Author’s Note
3Prologue: A Man for the Ages
4PART ONE: FRONTIER ORIGINS (1809–1830)
5Chapter 1: The Log Cabin — Frontier Childhood in Kentucky and Indiana
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6Chapter 2: Death on the Frontier — Loss, Grief, and Resilience
7Chapter 3: New Salem — Education, Ambition, and Ann Rutledge
8Chapter 4: The Making of a Lawyer — Self-Invention on the Illinois Prairie
9PART TWO: THE POLITICIAN (1830–1858)
10Chapter 5: Springfield Rising — Law, Marriage, and the Whig Party
11Chapter 6: Congress and Exile — The Mexican War and Political Wilderness
12Chapter 7: Kansas-Nebraska — Lincoln's Return to the National Stage
13Chapter 8: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates — A Nation Listens
14PART THREE: THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE (1858–1861)
15Chapter 9: Cooper Union — The Speech That Made Lincoln President
16Chapter 10: The Wigwam Convention — Winning the Republican Nomination
17Chapter 11: The Election of 1860 — Victory and the Secession Crisis
18Chapter 12: The Journey to Washington — Inauguration and the Coming War
19PART FOUR: WAR PRESIDENT (1861–1863)
20Chapter 13: Team of Rivals — Building Lincoln's War Cabinet
21Chapter 14: Commander in Chief — Lincoln and His Generals
22Chapter 15: The Path to Emancipation — Politics, Morality, and Military Necessity
23Chapter 16: The Northern Home Front — Lincoln and American Public Opinion
24PART FIVE: THE WAR'S CRISIS (1863–1864)
25Chapter 17: Gettysburg — The Address That Redefined the Nation
26Chapter 18: Grant and Sherman — Lincoln Finally Finds His Generals
27Chapter 19: The Election of 1864 — The War's Political Crisis
28Chapter 20: With Malice Toward None — The Second Inaugural
29PART SIX: DEATH AND LEGACY (1865–PRESENT)
30Chapter 21: Ford's Theatre — Assassination and Martyrdom
31Chapter 22: Lincoln and Race — The Evolving and Contested Legacy
32Chapter 23: The Lincoln Legend — Myth, Memory, and Monument
33Chapter 24: What Lincoln Means — The Long American Reckoning
34Epilogue: The Unfinished Work
35Acknowledgments
36Selected Bibliography
37About the Author
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