Behind the facade of an icon, churns the soul of a poet. Walk alongside Abraham Lincoln as he relives the crucible of youth that forged his character.Included in the Lincoln Collection of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.Seven-year-old Abraham Lincoln's boyhood dies when his father drags their family from the relative comfort of Kentucky into an unforgiving Indiana wilderness. While suffering rebuke for teaching himself to read and write, Abraham endures rumors of illegitimate birth, escapes death a half-dozen times, labors to repay his father's debts, and grieves the deaths of his infant brother, angel mother, precious sister, and beloved sweetheart.By his early thirties, he casts off his parents' religion, becomes estranged from his closest friend, breaks an engagement to marry a woman he doesn't love, and loses faith in his own character. He spirals into life-threatening depression. Unable to keep a pledge made to his dying mother to become someone special, he wrestles with self-doubt, abandons politics, and resigns himself to a life of mediocrity. But when his long-time rival opens the door for slavery's expansion across half the globe, Lincoln faces the greatest challenge of his life--his beloved country is on the brink of collapse.