The House of Lincoln: A Novel

Written by Nancy Horan

Narrated by Sarah Welborn

An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank.

Nancy Horan returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal.

Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, fourteen-year-old Ana Ferreira lands a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and with the hostess duties borne by the wife of a rising political star. Ana bears witness to the evolution of Lincoln's views on equality and the Union and observes in full complexity the psyche and pain of his bold, polarizing wife, Mary.

Along with her African American friend Cal, Ana encounters the presence of the underground railroad in town and experiences personally how slavery is tearing apart her adopted country. Culminating in an eyewitness account of the little-known Springfield race riot of 1908, The House of Lincoln takes listeners on a journey through the historic changes that reshaped America and that continue to reverberate today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Jun 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9798350836509

Nancy Horan

Nancy Horan is the New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank and Under the Wide and Starry Sky. Loving Frank remained on the NYT list for over a year, has been translated into sixteen languages and received the 2009 Prize for Historical Fiction from the Society of American Historians. A native Midwesterner, Horan was a teacher and journalist before turning to fiction. She lived for 25 years in Oak Park, Illinois, where she raised her two sons, and she now lives with her husband on an island in Puget Sound.

Reviews for The House of Lincoln

[George Szmaj · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

It was novel. It did elucidate a lot of the situation that was going on, especially with the Black people. I felt that it was a moral lesson told in an interesting fashion. Addressed a lot of the difficult things like post war syndrome it dress, the cause of the formation of the in it in a WCP it talked about the prejudice of the constitution of the south that was based on the fact that the white race was superior, so it had a lot of moral lessons easy to read easy to listen to.