Abraham Lincoln /
by Jean F. Blashfield ; content advisor, Tim Townsend ; social science adviser, Sherry L. Field ; reading adviser, Linda D. Labbo.
- Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2002.
- 64 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
- Profiles of the presidents .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 60) and index.
In the Kentucky wilderness -- Into new land -- A new mother -- A grown young man -- The quest for a future -- Steps into politics -- At work in the capital -- To Washington and back -- The slavery debates -- A new and bigger contest -- The nation falls apart -- The war begins -- Steps toward freeing the slaves -- The battles continue -- For the people.
A biography of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States and the man responsible for seeing the Union through the Civil War.