Abraham Lincoln

I kind of wonder how accurate some of this stuff is. I mean, it doesn't really say what their sources are. I don't know how true this is. It's written by the same people who wrote a very popular book of Greek myths, and their fondness for myths shows in this as there's a lot of foreshadowing. There's a fortune teller who predicts he'll be president, his wife wants to marry the man who will be the President of the United States, he goes down south and sees how the slaves are treated and wants to make them free, and I'm not sure how accurate that is. I recall that he didn't run on a platform of freeing the slaves. (Upon further research, it turns out he wrote about that specific trip south in a letter. Also, he was raised in a religion that was against slavery, and ran on a platform of preventing its expansion.)

The story just basically talks about Abraham Lincoln's birth and his childhood and growing up and becoming a lawyer. It then shows him becoming the President, and the beginning and end of the Civil War, stopping before he dies. Like I said, it's hard to tell how truthful this is. It kind of makes me wonder how accurate their book on Greek myths was that I grew up with. I did later find discrepancies between it and the more common version. With myths, you can say anything and be almost as accurate, but this is history. How true is the story that he had three gingerbread men and gave two of them to a demanding little fat boy? It's weird, and I'm not sure what it implies. The book is very wordy. It's well written, but it's so long that it would only really hold the attention of a child who was really super interested in Abraham Lincoln, and it's not detailed enough to be used for a school report.