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Tad Lincoln's Father (Abraham Lincoln)

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If you want to know what Lincoln and his family were really like, read this amazing book. Ms. Taft wrote this book in 1931. She played with the Lincoln boys in the White House as a 16 year-old. Her descriptions of the everyday life of the Lincoln's, the White House and the times they lived make you feel as if you ARE there. It's an amazing step back into a time that has been written about by many others, but not from such a perspective. Truly wonderful, simple and illuminating.

This is an utterly delightful and informative memoir of the President's family by Julia Taft Bayne, who was a regular visitor and almost a member of the family up until the untimely death of young Willie Lincoln from typhoid in 1862. To all those who are passionately devoted to the study of and discovery of Lincoln, (as well as those who love books about growing up in the 1800's in America), I highly recommend this
book. I have recounted some of its anecdotes in our production, ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S LOVE OF SONG..
.This book has all the charm of such stories as Little House on the Prairie and Little Women...Love it!

This book offered more intimate interactions between Lincoln, his children, and his children's dear friends who were so often at the White House.