A review by triscuit807
Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster

3.0

2.5-3 stars. Very similar in flow to her earlier book"George Washington's World" and with similar blind spots and omissions - this is a history of interconnections. But because the world is 'larger' and the US is too, the links between countries are fewer and less elaborated becoming mere glosses to highlight the US story as the Civil War approaches. The unification of Italy and the Germanies. the independence of the S. American colonies, the opening of Japan, the fall of Napoleon and deterioration of imperial China do figure into the history. BUT there is relatively little discussion of the Monroe Doctrine, manifest destiny and the Gold Rush, the fate of the Native American tribes, and the forces driving the continuation of slavery. There is next to no discussion of the workings of the Confederacy and the Civil War was a very hurried discussion. I read this for my 2019 Reading Challenge and my Newbery Challenge (Honor Book, 1944).