Donna Janell Bowman

This book was very interesting for me because it was a story about an event that happen in Abraham Lincoln’s life that not very many people knew about, this also became the “meanest thing he has ever done”. This book is about how Lincoln got himself into trouble. Abraham Lincoln was a Lawyer and his coworker Shields was a lawyer too, they were often known as opposites of one another. Shields was very arrogant and serious, and Lincoln was not. One day Shields had wrote an article and Lincoln’s reply was a “Aunt Rebecca” letter, which at the time no one knew that it was Lincoln and soon after more letters started to show up from other citizens. Lincoln knew he had to own up to his mistake and that’s when Shields called Lincoln to a Duel. They were able to solve this matter without a duel and this became Lincoln’s meanest things he’s ever done in his life. I did not know this about Lincoln, and thought that even if this was not true, it was still in a way funny because what he did was “mean” and that was far from mean, maybe wrong but Abraham Lincoln was a very good guy and never did anything mean in his life.… (más)

This book tells the story of a duel that Abraham Lincoln had before he became the president. Many people have never heard of this story because Abraham was ashamed of the duel. He called it the meanest thing that he had ever done. The significance of the story was that through this “almost- duel” Lincoln became the honest person that everyone knew him to be.
Abraham was a regular man, he made mistakes and lived a regular human life. He was smart, funny, and clever. The book was more of a story about a specific time in Lincoln’s life rather than an overall story of Lincoln’s life. It did not resemble the other biographies that I have read and was not as interesting as the others. There was no real timeline of Lincoln’s life because it was mainly based on his “almost duel”.… (más)