I Am Abraham
A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War

Let me begin by prefacing this review with the following: 1. Abraham Lincoln is my favorite president. 2. I have not read Bill O'Reilly's book about Lincoln, but I have seen the film. 3. I also saw that Lincoln film that came out last year. I don't recall when my interest in Abraham Lincoln began, but I......more

Rare is it for any reader to chance upon a novel that succeeds beyond expectation in eliciting his/her excitement and capturing his/her interest with the first sentence or paragraph. Well, 'I am Abraham' is such a novel, richly told and largely spoken in Lincoln's own voice. Lincoln goes on to take......more

I just can't with this book. I'm giving up - and I rarely do that. In fact, it took me 3 tries to finally quit reading it, I hate that much to quit a book, but I managed it - right around the time when I read Abraham Lincoln referring to masturbation as "pulling on his root" and then calling his eja......more

Oftentimes we lose the man to the legend. We build up so much story around a historical/political/whatever-al figure that we forget who the real person was....or that So-and-So was a real person. Nowadays figures in the public eye can - and have - fire back, defending their personality and true self......more

The first thing you think, if you've ever been lucky enough to have read Jerome Charyn previously, is that I Am Abraham seems a lot like, well, a Jerome Charyn novel. I haven't read enough of Charyn, but I've read enough where the general pattern of his fiction emerges. He might almost be considered......more