Rating: Not rated
Tags: Historical fiction, Lang:en
Summary
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through
the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a
nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's
bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call
"Milk Sickness.""My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.Only
later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal
affliction was actually the work of a vampire.When the truth
becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal,
"henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and
devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this
mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his
legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out
on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the
White House.While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a
Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against
the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for
hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled
upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the
first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140
years.Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand
biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David
McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our
greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the
hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role
vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our
nation.