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Tracing the traditional arc of Abraham Lincoln's life from his picaresque days and nights as a gangly young man in Sangamon County, Illinois, through his improbable matrimony to Kentucky belle Mary Todd, to his 1865 trip to war-shattered Richmond only days and nights before his assassination, I Am Abraham hews to the familiar Lincoln saga, seamlessly braiding Lincoln members of the family and military results with a parade of fictional extras - wise-cracking knaves, conniving hangers-on, patriotic whores, and dying military. Using biblically cadenced prose, cornpone 19th-century humor, and Lincoln's own letters and speeches, Jerome Charyn concocts a profoundly moral but troubled commander in chief, whose relationship along with his Ophelia-like partner and sons - Robert, Willie, and Tad - is explored with penetrating internal insight, utmost compassion, and the most clever novelistic license.
