The Turn: a bond that shaped history

A novel based on true events William Johnson was never Lincoln's shadow. He was his mirror - a novel based on true events.

As Lincoln's personal barber and valet, Johnson did not influence the President by whispering into his ear, he was the living embodiment of the price paid trying to keep the Union together, a daily reminder that half measures were an insult to humanity. Because calculating the cost of peace is impossible, where humans enter the equation.

After escaping slavery, twenty-fi...