Volume 8 of 8 volume set. This volume is a biography of Lincoln by Noah Brooks, and is entitled "The Life of Lincoln." It includes the following sections: The Lincoln Ancestry; The Boyhood of Lincoln; Young Manhood; The Lincolns in Illinois; A Plunge into Politics; The Young Politician; Winning His Way; The Rising Politician; Lincoln the Lawyer; A Great Awakening; The Kansas Struggle; The Coming Man; Lincoln and Douglas;After a Great Struggle; Elected to the Presidency; After the Election; From Springfield to Washington; Lincoln's Inauguration; President Abraham Lincoln; Beginning of the Great Struggle; The Slavery Question Arise; A Difficult Military Situation; The Turning of the Tide; Political Complications; The Family in the White House; The President and His Cabinet; End of a Strange Eventful History. Table of Contents. Index to this volume.