A review by aloyokon
Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Richard Brookhiser

4.0

A look at the 16th president's career through the lens of his relations to the Founding Fathers. Although Lincoln never met any of the Founders (the last of the Founding Generation were exiting the scene just as Lincoln was growing up), he alluded to them often in his speeches and arguments, and he looked to them for inspiration as he advanced to Congressman and President. I am particularly impressed by Brookhiser's contrast of Lincoln's relations to the Founders and Lincoln's very strained relations with his biological father.