Author Wade Hall has taken Abraham Lincoln’s actual words from speeches, articles, and letters and assembled them in the form of answers to questions posed in an imagined interview with a fictional young journalist recently returned from the war front. The result is a fresh look at the mind and philosophy of our sixteenth president and the issues he was grappling with as the war came to a close, just a few days before he was assassinated.

Wade Hall ... captures Lincoln’s essence in succinct, entertaining, and often moving prose. Hall knows that the best biographers write from the facts to reveal the truth and he realizes that the facts inform rather than replicate reality. An Interview with Abraham Lincoln is slight but significant and frequently eloquent. In just 88 pages, Hall captures the complexity of Lincoln’s competitive, compassionate nature in a smart, sensitive scenario that would make his subject proud.

—Louisville Courier-Journal

An Interview With Abraham Lincoln is as informative as it is concise ... it offers yet another charming portrait of our sixteenth president’s rich life.

—First Draft

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WADE HALL (1934-2015) taught at colleges and universities in Florida and Kentucky, and was the author of many books, monographs, poems, and plays about the South and its people. He held degrees from Troy State University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Illinois. A native of rural Alabama, he lived and worked in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1962 to 2006, when he moved back to his family homeplace at Hall’s Crossroads in Bullock County, Alabama, south of Union Springs, Alabama.

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