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Abraham Lincoln trusted and confided in his rules partner William "Billy" Herndon, but his still-influential 1889 biography was censored by his collaborator and publisher. In Lincoln's Billy, Tom LeClair imagines Herndon's deathbed autobiography and the "true to life" of his partner, revealing secrets in regards to a randy and "rasslin'" Lincoln on his fresh excursions to New Orleans, the hidden resources of his depression, and the untold cause of his hatred of slavery. Predicated on the latest biographical research, Lincoln's Billy reveals a vulgar, tale-telling Lincoln unknown to most Us citizens and a radical, truth-telling Herndon who was simply more complex - and even more contemporary - than the chief executive on open public education, women's rights, and most notably, slavery. The abolitionist and free-thinking Billy contends along with his beloved partner for 16 years, and after the assassination, he conflicts with Lincoln's family, other biographers, Religious fundamentalists, corrupt Republican politicians, robber barons, and Victorian propriety as he struggles to create his unconventionally frank biography. Equally as strong-willed are the novel's women: the ambitious, psychologically volatile, and mentally sick Mary Todd Lincoln as well as Herndon's two wives - Mary Maxcy, an active intellectual helpmeet despite being the mom of six, and Anna Miles, a Democrat, Presbyterian, and slavery sympathizer with whom Billy argues issues of your day. Like the storyline of Lincoln's life and autobiographies by Franklin, Douglass, and Henry Adams, Lincoln's Billy is a vintage American tale of failure, resistance, persistence, and hard-won success. The writer of five books with contemporary adjustments, Tom LeClair pairs two vibrant historical voices in Lincoln's Billy - Abe's "Kaintuck" vernacular and Billy's lawyerly rhetoric - as the two lawyers duel over biographical fact and historical fiction.
