Based on years of extensive research by notable Lincoln scholars, this biography presents a definitive and compelling portrait about the short life and times of the mother of one of America’s greatest known political minds. Nancy Hanks Lincoln may be relatively unknown in American history—known mostly to historians only as the mother of Abraham Lincoln. But she deserves more than being just an obscure footnote in the incredible life of the sixteenth President of the United States. Though she led an ordinary life, she was anything but ordinary. It was because of her extraordinary mind and exceptional character that Lincoln became the man he would later become—a fact of which he noted many times in his writings during his lifetime.

This book has been digitally restored from an archival copy of the original 1952 edition.