Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait Peter Brown "Top 10 Children’s Book 2013

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Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait Peter Brown "Top 10 Children’s Book 2013Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait is a unique middle grade depiction of Americas sixteenth president, through the story of one famous photograph, written by award winning author Leonard S. Marcus. On February 9, 1864, Abraham Lincoln made the mile long walk from the Executive Mansion to photographer Mathew Brady's Washington, DC, studio, to be joined there later by his ten year old son, Tad. With a fractious re election campaign looming that year,