Indiana, 1818.
Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin,
where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's
bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk
Sickness."
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.
When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "
henceforth
my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a
master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..."
Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe
sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the
White House.
While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union
and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of
the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is,
until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon
The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.
Using
the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of
Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the
true
life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while
revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the
role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation. - from the Publisher
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