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  • The House of Lincoln

  • A Novel
  • Written by: Nancy Horan
  • Narrated by: Sarah Welborn
  • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank.

Nancy Horan returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal.

Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, fourteen-year-old Ana Ferreira lands a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and with the hostess duties borne by the wife of a rising political star. Ana bears witness to the evolution of Lincoln's views on equality and the Union and observes in full complexity the psyche and pain of his bold, polarizing wife, Mary.

Along with her African American friend Cal, Ana encounters the presence of the underground railroad in town and experiences personally how slavery is tearing apart her adopted country. Culminating in an eyewitness account of the little-known Springfield race riot of 1908, The House of Lincoln takes listeners on a journey through the historic changes that reshaped America and that continue to reverberate today.
©2023 Nancy Horan (P)2023 Tantor
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Worth a listen if you like Nancy Horan.

This story was good. As are her other stories, it is told mainly through the voice of strong female characters.
I did not enjoy the narration. Perhaps the accent and mispronunciation was meant to convey a sense of realism of the time and place. It was quite annoying to me.

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