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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 fascinating (Booklist, starred review) A Self-Made Man, Sidney Blumenthal reveals how Lincolns 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. The Lincoln of Blumenthals pen isa brave progressive facing racist assaults on his religion, ethnicity, and very legitimacy that echo the anti-Obama birther movement.Blumenthal takes the wily pol of Steven Spielbergs Lincoln and Doris Kearns Goodwins Team of Rivals and goes deeper, finding a Vulcan logic and House of Cards ruthlessness (The Washingtonian).
Based on prodigious research of Lincolns record, and of the period and its main players, Blumenthals robust biography reflects both Lincolns 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. Splendidno one can come away from reading A Self-Made Manwithout eagerly anticipating the ensuing volumes. (Washington Monthly).
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Abraham Lincolns log cabin
Built by Abraham Lincoln and his father in 1831, in Coles County, Illinois
United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., east front elevation
Half plate daguerreotype, by John Plumbe, ca. 1846
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ALSO BY SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
The Strange Death of Republican America
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This Town (play)
Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the Cold War
The Reagan Legacy (Editor with Thomas Byrne Edsall)
Our Long National Daydream: A Pageant of the Reagan Years
The Rise of the Counter-Establishment: From Conservative Ideology to Political Power
The Permanent Campaign
The first photograph of Abraham Lincoln, 1846 or 1847.
For Claire Stone Blumenthal Miller
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
February 12, 1809: Birth of Abraham Lincoln
December 1811: The Lincoln family moves from Kentucky to Indiana
October 5, 1818: Death of Lincolns mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln
December 2, 1819: Marriage of Thomas Lincoln, Lincolns father, to Sarah Bush Johnston
August 5, 1822: Edward Coles elected governor of Illinois, goes on to defeat efforts to legalize slavery in the state
January 20, 1828: Sarah Lincoln Grigsby, Lincolns sister, dies in childbirth
December 1828: Lincoln, on a flatboat trip down the Mississippi River, arrives in New Orleans where he is angered by the sights of slavery
March 1830: The Lincoln family moves to Illinois
July 1831: Lincoln settles in New Salem as a clerk in Denton Offutts store
April 1832: Lincoln enlists to fight in the Black Hawk War
August 6, 1832: Lincoln loses his first election for the state legislature
December 10, 1832: President Andrew Jackson issues his Proclamation Against Nullification
April 1833: The Berry & Lincoln general store fails, leaving Lincoln in debt
August 4, 1834: Lincoln is elected to the state legislature
August 25, 1835: Lincolns fiance, Ann Rutledge, dies
January 20, 1836: Lincoln proposes a bill in the Illinois legislature for emancipation in the District of Columbia
May 25, 1836: John Quincy Adams launches the fight against the Gag Rule
September 9, 1836: Lincoln receives his license to practice law
November 1836: Stephen A. Douglas elected to the state legislature
March 4, 1837: Martin Van Buren inaugurated as president
April 15, 1837: Lincoln moves to Springfield, becomes the law partner of John Todd Stuart
November 7, 1837: Elijah Lovejoy murdered
January 27, 1838: Lincoln delivers his Lyceum address denouncing Lovejoys killing
November 7, 1838: William H. Seward elected governor of New York
April 4, 1841: President William Henry Harrison dies; John Tyler becomes president
September 22, 1842: Lincolns duel with James Shields aborted
November 4, 1842: Lincoln marries Mary Todd
August 1, 1843: Robert Todd Lincoln born
August 7, 1843: Illinois Supreme Court justice Stephen A. Douglas elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
June 27, 1844: Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith murdered ending the Illinois Mormon War
November 5, 1844: James K. Polk defeats Henry Clay for president
December 1844: Lincoln sets up his own law office with William H. Herndon as partner
March 10, 1846: Edward Baker Lincoln born
May 13, 1846: Mexican War declared
August 3, 1846: Lincoln elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
December 13, 1846: Stephen A. Douglas elected to the U.S. Senate
January 22, 1847: Lincoln delivers floor speech after introducing his Spot Resolution demanding to know exactly where the Mexican War began
April 15, 1848: Seventy-seven slaves in Washington attempt to escape on a boat called the Pearl
September 22, 1848: Lincoln campaigns for the Whig Party and Zachary Taylor in Boston with William H. Seward
December 1848: Lincoln authors a bill for emancipation in the District of Columbia that fails to win support and he does not introduce
February 22, 1849: Salmon P. Chase elected to the U.S. Senate
March 31, 1849: Lincoln leaves Washington after failing to secure a patronage position, returns to Springfield and will not come back to the capital until twelve years later as president-elect
February 1, 1850: Edward Baker Lincoln dies
FAMILY
Thomas Lincoln, Father
Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Mother
Sarah Lincoln, Sister
Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln, Stepmother
Mary Todd, Wife
Ninian W. Edwards, Brother-in-law, son of the first governor of Illinois
Elizabeth Todd Edwards, Sister-in-law
Robert Smith Todd, Mary Todds father
ILLINOIS
Jack Armstrong, Clarys Grove Boys leader
Edward D. Baker, Illinois legislator, congressman
Justin Butterfield, Chicago lawyer, Whig politician
John Calhoun, Lincolns supervisor as surveyor, Democratic politician
Peter Cartwright, Preacher and Democratic politician, Lincolns congressional opponent
Edward Coles, Thomas Jeffersons protg, James Madisons private secretary, governor of Illinois
David Davis, Illinois legislator, judge, Whig Party stalwart
Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois legislator, judge, congressman, senator
Thomas Ford, Governor of Illinois during the Mormon War
Simeon Francis, Editor, Sangamo Journal
Mentor Graham, New Salem schoolteacher
John J. Hardin, Illinois legislator, congressman, Mary Todds cousin
Dr. Anson Henry, Whig partisan, Lincolns doctor
William H. Herndon, Lincolns law partner
Usher F. Linder, Illinois legislator, attorney general, lawyer
Stephen Trigg Logan, Lincolns second law partner
Denton Offutt, Lincolns first employer, store owner, and horse whisperer
James Shields, Illinois legislator, U.S. senator, Douglass ally
Joseph Smith, Mormon Prophet
Joshua Speed, Lincolns Springfield roommate
John Todd Stuart, Lincolns early political mentor in the legislature and first law partner
NATIONAL POLITICS
Thomas Hart Benton, Senator from Missouri
Francis Preston Blair, Editor, Washington Globe , Democratic political adviser
John C. Calhoun, Congressman, secretary of war, vice president, secretary of state, senator from South Carolina
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