{"id":602219,"date":"2023-01-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/author-john-cribb-to-visit-peachtree-city-library\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T12:00:00","slug":"author-john-cribb-to-visit-peachtree-city-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/author-john-cribb-to-visit-peachtree-city-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Author John Cribb to Visit Peachtree City Library"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peachtree City Library will welcome bestselling author John Cribb on Thursday, February 2, at 1 p.m., in the Floy Farr Room to discuss his latest work of historical fiction,\u00a0The Rail Splitter<\/i>. The event is free and open to the public.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

The Rail Splitter<\/i>\u00a0tells the story of Abraham Lincoln\u2019s remarkable journey from a log cabin to the threshold of the White House\u2014a journey that makes him one of America\u2019s most beloved heroes. The story begins with Lincoln\u2019s youth on the frontier, where he grows up with an ax in one hand and book in the other, determined to make something of himself. He sets off on one adventure after another, from rafting down the Mississippi River to marching in an Indian war. When he is twenty-six, the girl he hopes to marry dies of fever. He spends days wandering the countryside in grief. A few years later, he purchases a ring inscribed with the words \u201cLove Is Eternal\u201d and enters a tempestuous marriage with Mary Todd.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

The Rail Splitter\u00a0<\/i>develops Lincoln as he literally and figuratively wrestles his way to prominence on the Illinois prairies. He teaches himself the law and enters the rough-and-tumble world of frontier politics. With Mary\u2019s encouragement, he wins a term in the US Congress, but his political career falters. As arguments over slavery sweep the country, Lincoln finds something worth fighting for, and his debates with brash rival Stephen Douglas catapult him toward the White House.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

A bestselling author who has written about subjects ranging from history to education, Cribb is the coauthor, with William J. Bennett, of\u00a0The American Patriot\u2019s Almanac<\/i>. His first novel,\u00a0Old Abe<\/i>, covering the last five years of Lincoln\u2019s life, has met with widespread acclaim.\u00a0Incorporating years of the author\u2019s research for historical accuracy,\u00a0The Rail Splitter\u00a0<\/i>reminds readers during a time when our nation worries about its future, that the country Lincoln loved is a place of wide-open dreams where extraordinary journeys unfold.\u00a0It is an important novel for everyone interested in American history, the American character, and the quest for the American Dream.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Books will be available to purchase at the event from Book Miser.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Peachtree City Library will welcome bestselling author John Cribb on Thursday, February 2, at 1 p.m., in the Floy Farr Room to discuss his latest work of historical fiction,\u00a0The Rail Splitter. The event is free and open to the public. The Rail Splitter\u00a0tells the story of Abraham Lincoln\u2019s remarkable journey from a log cabin to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":602220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944,118531,534],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-602219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-author","8":"category-cribb","9":"category-financial"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}