{"product_id":"used-abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter","title":"Used - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndiana, 1818.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call \"Milk Sickness.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"My baby boy...\" she whispers before dying.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOnly later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ehenceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e...\" Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUsing the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003etrue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Publish date - 2010 - used paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53284321558838,"sku":null,"price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8714\/8342\/files\/IMG-3473.heic?v=1763661140","url":"https:\/\/thenandnowbookshop.com\/products\/used-abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter","provider":"Then \u0026 Now Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}