Book Excerpt: ‘A Horse for Mr. Lincoln’ (Part 1)

Abraham Lincoln with his son Tad. Public Domain

Editor’s note: The following is the first in a series of excerpts from “A Horse for Mr. Lincoln” by the Hon. Preston Manning, a self-described “lifelong fan of Lincoln.” Illustrated by Henri de Groot, the book is a work of fiction and looks at how events in the United States might have turned out differently, with the country being much more unified today if Abraham Lincoln had not gone to the theatre on that fateful night of April 14, 1865.

The other excerpts can be found in the following links: Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

Author’s Note

I was raised in a political family, my father, Ernest C. Manning, serving as Premier of the Canadian province of Alberta for twenty-five years and as a Canadian Senator for another thirteen years. I myself served as a member of the Canadian Parliament during a time when it wrestled with the potential secession of a Canadian province from our federation.