Since I have been to New Salem many times and it is just up the road, I was already an interested party for Rawlins’ book.
(It is) a book about how God moves through Lincoln’s life and how New Salem and those that lived there help round out a young man into the man he would become. I learned a lot about the people Lincoln connected with in his early life through Rawlins’ book. New facts come to light. Lincoln was a tortured soul in many ways, seeing a lot of death and having a terrible childhood that I was not really privy to before reading this book.
An easy read, I like history and fiction… If you like Lincoln, this is a great book. I like history and fiction… If you like Lincoln, this is a great book. I recommend reading it, then visiting New Salem…and see the sites through new eyes.
Cindy Ladage, April 19, 2019. (Condensed from a longer review by Cindy Ladage, a freelance journalist, from her blog ‘Traveling Adventures of a Farm Girl.’)