Newbery Award winner, 1988. A warm, appealing biography of our Civil War president, from his boyhood and his career as a country lawyer, to his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd, through the presidential years and the Civil War. Includesan enhanced CD with a slide show of archival photographs. "Will engage a wide audience of listeners... Petkoff blends a careful (though never dry) narration with lively reenactments of regional accents."—AudioFile