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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a senate seat. He sidelines the frontrunner William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party's nomination. All the Powers of Earth is the political story of all time. Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In order to become a great man, Abraham Lincoln first had to become a politician. In his epic biography, Sidney Blumenthal, one of America's foremost political analysts, presents a revelatory portrait of Lincoln the politician. The story begins with Lincoln's painful childhood, a time he remembered as his father's slave, and describes his determined emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln. His early years, among antislavery Baptists in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Volume II of Sidney Blumenthal's acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, reveals the future president's genius during the most decisive period of his political life when he seizes the moment, finds his voice, and helps create a new political party. In 1849, Abraham Lincoln seems condemned to political isolation and defeat. His Whig Party is broken in the 1852 election, and disintegrates. His perennial rival, Stephen...
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