title: Lincoln's Selected Writings (Norton Critical Editions)
author: Abraham Lincoln
description: David Reynolds masterfully presents the most broad-ranging and revealing array of documents by or about Lincoln to appear in a single volume.<br /> - <strong>Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis</strong><br /><br />An extremely valuable addition to Lincoln studies, carefully edited and introduced by the editor<br /> - <strong>Mason Lowance, UMass Amherst</strong><br /><br />This expansive but carefully curated array of writings by and about Abraham Lincoln provides readers with an excellent source from which to draw in seeking to come to grips with the most eloquent and philosophically serious President Americans have had thus far.<br /> - <strong>Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School</strong>
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  # The Story of  
  Young Abraham Lincoln
  
  ### By
  
  ## WAYNE WHIPPLE
  
  Author of The Story of the American Flag, The Story of the  
  Liberty Bell, The Story of the White House, The Story  
  of Young George Washington, the Story of  
  Young Benjamin Franklin, etc.  
  Illustrated  
  P H I L A D E L P H I A  
  HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY
  
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  Copyright , 1915, by Howard E. Altemus  
  Copyright , 1918, by Howard E. Altemus  
  Printed in the  
  United States of America
  
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  ## CONTENTS
  
  Chapter |  Page  
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  |  Introduction |  [9](text00000.html#Page_9)  
  I. |  Abraham Lincoln's Forefathers |  [15](text00000.html#Page_15)  
  II. |  Abraham Lincoln's Father and Mother |  [24](text00000.html#Page_24)  
  III. |  The Boy Lincoln's Best Teacher |  [33](text00000.html#Page_33)  
  IV. |  Learning to Work |  [40](text00000.html#Page_40)  
  V. |  Losing His Mother |  [52](text00000.html#Page_52)  
  VI. |  School Days Now and Then . |  [62](text00000.html#Page_62)  
  VII. |  