Category: History Publisher: Hastings House
ISBN-10: 0803893752
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 260
Copyright: March 1, 1995
An oral history by Mariah Vance, the Lincolns' black housekeeper in their home in Springfield, Ill. from 1850 to 1860. She is the first person to tell of their homelife. The Lincolns were a typical dysfunctional American family, circa 1850s.
Excerpt
"The most important book on Lincoln in a century" -- William Pederson, prof., Louisiana State University. "(Lincoln scholars) might hail it as the greatest discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls."
The heroic story of how a small group of people, few of them TB experts, found the cure for the greatest killer in human history. But the battle needed to be extended to all sufferers. Why have we failed to take the miracle to the developing world?
