“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..”
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