Giant in the Shadows

University Press Books for Public and Secondary Schools, 2013 edition Book of the Year by the Illinois State historical Society, 2013 Although he was Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s oldest and last surviving son, the details of Robert T. Lincoln’s life are misunderstood by some and unknown to many others. Nearly half a century after the last biography about Abraham Lincoln’s son was published, historian and author Jason Emerson illuminates the life of this remarkable man and his achievements in Giant