Description: "Lincoln in New England revisits the important towns where Lincoln spoke and the pivotal figures that helped define the great issues leading to the Civil War. Readers join native New Englander and Lincoln historian David J. Kent as he travels back in time to examine the nation's downward spiral into conflict.Readers will explore the crucial issues that predicated the civil war, the birth of the Republican Party as an anti-slavery faction, and New England's own short-lived flirtation with secession in the spirit of independence. Through the book's first-person travelogue style, historical maps with redrawn routes, original writings from Lincoln himself, insight from Lincoln historians, and black and white photographs, readers gain a full picture of the region's vital influence leading up to the Civil War. "-- Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: Many fine Lincoln-related guide books cover sites in the Midwest and the Upper South, but New England has been sadly neglected. No longer! David J. Kent, author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln's Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America, has filled the gap with this engaging combination of travelogue, autobiography, and history that illuminates Lincoln's little-known 1848 campaign tour in Massachusetts and his highly significant 1860 lecture/campaign trip starting in New York and followed by a multi-stop swing through Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. No Lincolnians can claim to have comprehensively visited the Lincoln sites without touring New England, something they will especially enjoy doing with this book in hand to provide insight and entertainment along the way. --Michael Burlingame, PhD, author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life