A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln,

A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1849

The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincolnâ€”from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliationâ€”â€œengaging and informative andâ€¦thought-provokingâ€ (The Christian Science Monitor).

From his youth as a voracious newspaper reader, Abraham Lincoln became a free thinker, reading Tom Paine, as well as Shakespeare and the Bible. In the â€œfascinatingâ€ (Booklist, starred review) A Self-Made Man, Sidney Blumenthal reveals how Lincolnâ€™s antislavery thinking began in his childhood in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Yet he was a socially awkward suitor who had a nervous breakdown over his inability to deal with the opposite sex. His marriage to the upper class Mary Todd was crucial to his social aspirations and his political career. â€œThe Lincoln of Blumenthalâ€™s pen isâ€¦a brave progressive facing racist assaults on his religion, ethnicity, and very legitimacy that echo the anti-Obama birther movementâ€¦.Blumenthal takes the wily pol of Steven Spielbergâ€™s Lincoln and Doris Kearns Goodwinâ€™s Team of Rivals and goes deeper, finding a Vulcan logic and House of Cards ruthlessnessâ€ (The Washingtonian).

Based on prodigious research of Lincolnâ€™s record, and of the period and its main players, Blumenthalâ€™s robust biography reflects both Lincolnâ€™s time and the struggle that consumes our own political debate. This first volume traces Lincoln from his birth in 1809 through his education in the political arts, rise to the Congress, and fall into the wilderness from which he emerged as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln. â€œSplendidâ€¦no one can come away from reading A Self-Made Manâ€¦without eagerly anticipating the ensuing volumes.â€ (Washington Monthly).
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2024-02-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2024-02-13
Format	Kindle eBook

A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1849

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