Audio Book Description:
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one- room cabin, where a nine-year-old AbrahamLincoln kneels at his sufferingmother`s bedside. She`s been stricken with something the old-timers call "MilkSickness." "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later willthe grieving Abe learn that hismother`sfatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes inhis journal, "Henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion, Ishall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but onepurpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out ona path of vengeance thatwill lead him all the way to the WhiteHouse. While Abraham Lincoln iswidely lauded for saving the Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight againstthe forces of the undead hasremained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is until, Seth Grahame-Smithstumbled upon The Secret Journal Of AbrahamLincoln, and became the firstliving person to lay eyes on itin more than 140 years. Using the journal as hisguide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris KearnsGoodwin and David McCullough, Seth has constructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-- all while revealing the hidden historybehind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played inthe birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.
