Lamon, Lincoln’s friend, fellow lawyer on the Illinois circuit and bodyguard, traces his life from birth in Kentucky through boyhood in Indiana, New Salem and Springfield, the law, Congress and the debates with Douglas, to the inauguration of 1861. It draws on letters and on the reminiscences gathered by William Herndon, and is frank about subjects earlier biographers avoided.
A candid early biography by a man who knew Lincoln well, valuable for its documents. Download the free EPUB.