Abraham Lincoln, American Prince: Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause (Wayne Sioni - LP) pats government’s first “Secret Service

government’s first “Secret Service

compelling: Her book arrives just in time” (The Boston Globe)

Richard Carwardine methodically demonstrates that Lincoln’s funny stories were the means of securing political or personal advantage

brilliant and blind

based on the country’s founding

Abraham Lincoln, American Prince: Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause (Wayne Sioni - LP) pats government’s first “Secret Serviceby Wayne Soini The relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his two most influential ancestors his mother and "the Virginia planter," a slaveholder, a shadowy grandfather he likely never met is rarely mentioned in Lincoln biographies or in history texts. However, Lincoln, forever linked to the cause of freedom and equality in America, spoke candidly of the planter to his law partner, Billy Herndon, who recalled his words, "My mother inherited his