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Title: Lincoln's Billy
Author: Tom LeClair
Narrator: Traber Burns
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-15-15
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Abraham Lincoln trusted and confided in his law 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 "real life" of his partner, revealing secrets about a randy and "rasslin'" Lincoln on his youthful trips to New Orleans, the hidden sources of his depression, and the untold cause of his hatred of slavery.
Based on the latest biographical research, Lincoln's Billy presents a vulgar, tale-telling Lincoln unknown to most Americans and a radical, truth-telling Herndon who was more advanced - and more contemporary - than the president on public education, women's rights, and most importantly, slavery. The abolitionist and free-thinking Billy contends with his beloved partner for 16 years, and after the assassination, he conflicts with Lincoln's family, other biographers, Christian fundamentalists, corrupt Republican politicians, robber barons, and Victorian propriety as he struggles to write his unconventionally frank biography. Just as strong-willed are the novel's women: the ambitious, emotionally volatile, and mentally ill Mary Todd Lincoln as well as Herndon's two wives - Mary Maxcy, an active intellectual helpmeet despite being the mother of six, and Anna Miles, a Democrat, Presbyterian, and slavery sympathizer with whom Billy argues issues of the day. Like the story of Lincoln's life and autobiographies by Franklin, Douglass, and Henry Adams, Lincoln's Billy is a classic American tale of failure, resistance, persistence, and hard-won success.
The author of five novels with contemporary settings, Tom LeClair pairs two vivid historical voices in Lincoln's Billy - Abe's "Kaintuck" vernacular and Billy's lawyerly rhetoric - as the two attorneys duel over biographical truth and historical fiction.
Members Reviews:
More of what we need
Once again Tom LeClaire masterfully crafts a brilliant story, this time giving us a picture of Lincoln we will not find elsewhere. While many biographical portraits tend to romanticize the past, LeClair portrays a Lincoln that is more human than I have encountered before, and thus one that is even more relatable and admirable. I don't want to give too much away here, so will keep it brief and simply recommend it wholeheartedly.
16th president
totally loved this book well written easy to read it was nice to read about lincoln who happens to be one of my favorite presidents that he was human also loved that he had a humor to him
Satisfying WOW! Factor
Thoroughly enjoyed this book! It has a satisfying WOW! factor at the end. The imaginings of Lincoln's experiences as the all too human young man provide a very believable explanation for the public Lincoln we've come to know. Highly recommend it!
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Title: Lincoln's Billy
Author: Tom LeClair
Narrator: Traber Burns
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-15-15
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Abraham Lincoln trusted and confided in his law 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 "real life" of his partner, revealing secrets about a randy and "rasslin'" Lincoln on his youthful trips to New Orleans, the hidden sources of his depression, and the untold cause of his hatred of slavery.
Based on the latest biographical research, Lincoln's Billy presents a vulgar, tale-telling Lincoln unknown to most Americans and a radical, truth-telling Herndon who was more advanced - and more contemporary - than the president on public education, women's rights, and most importantly, slavery. The abolitionist and free-thinking Billy contends with his beloved partner for 16 years, and after the assassination, he conflicts with Lincoln's family, other biographers, Christian fundamentalists, corrupt Republican politicians, robber barons, and Victorian propriety as he struggles to write his unconventionally frank biography. Just as strong-willed are the novel's women: the ambitious, emotionally volatile, and mentally ill Mary Todd Lincoln as well as Herndon's two wives - Mary Maxcy, an active intellectual helpmeet despite being the mother of six, and Anna Miles, a Democrat, Presbyterian, and slavery sympathizer with whom Billy argues issues of the day. Like the story of Lincoln's life and autobiographies by Franklin, Douglass, and Henry Adams, Lincoln's Billy is a classic American tale of failure, resistance, persistence, and hard-won success.
The author of five novels with contemporary settings, Tom LeClair pairs two vivid historical voices in Lincoln's Billy - Abe's "Kaintuck" vernacular and Billy's lawyerly rhetoric - as the two attorneys duel over biographical truth and historical fiction.
Members Reviews:
More of what we need
Once again Tom LeClaire masterfully crafts a brilliant story, this time giving us a picture of Lincoln we will not find elsewhere. While many biographical portraits tend to romanticize the past, LeClair portrays a Lincoln that is more human than I have encountered before, and thus one that is even more relatable and admirable. I don't want to give too much away here, so will keep it brief and simply recommend it wholeheartedly.
16th president
totally loved this book well written easy to read it was nice to read about lincoln who happens to be one of my favorite presidents that he was human also loved that he had a humor to him
Satisfying WOW! Factor
Thoroughly enjoyed this book! It has a satisfying WOW! factor at the end. The imaginings of Lincoln's experiences as the all too human young man provide a very believable explanation for the public Lincoln we've come to know. Highly recommend it!