Full name: House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War

Author: Stephen Berry Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780618420056 0618420053

For all the talk of the Civil War's pitting brother against brother, no book has told fully the story of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family better illustrates the personal toll the war took than Lincoln's own.Mary Todd Lincoln was one of fourteen siblings who were split between the Confederacy and the Union.Three of her brothers fought, and two died, for the South. Several Todds--including Mary herself--bedeviled Lincoln's administration with their scandalous behavior.Their struggles haunted the president and moved him to avoid tactics or rhetoric that would dehumanize or scapegoat the Confederates. By drawing on his own familial experience, Lincoln was able to articulate a humanistic, even charitable view of the enemy that seems surpassingly wise in our time, let alone his. In House of Abraham, the award-winning historian Stephen Berry fills a gap in Civil War history, showing how the war changed one family and how that family changed the course of the war. Similar books: Rise to Greatness by David Von Drehle The Eloquent President by Ronald C. White Lincoln's Men by William C. Davis 1864 by Charles Bracelen Flood Reelecting Lincoln by Jack Waugh The Assassin's Accomplice by Kate Clifford Larson Lincoln and Douglas by Allen C. Guelzo Tried by War by James M. McPherson Honor's Voice by Douglas L. Wilson Blood on the Moon by Edward Steers Jr. Lincoln's Assassins by James L. Swanson President Lincoln by William Lee Miller The Lincolns by Daniel Mark Epstein Year of Meteors by Douglas R. Egerton The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln by Phillip Shaw Paludan The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Mobituaries by Mo Rocca