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A multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius--from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. The first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as a slave, to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln. From his youth as a newsboy, a voracious newspaper reader, Lincoln became a free thinker, reading Tom Paine, as well as Shakespeare and the Bible, and studying Euclid to sharpen his arguments as a lawyer. Lincolns anti-slavery thinking began in his childhood amidst the Primitive Baptist antislavery dissidents in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana, the roots of his repudiation of Southern Christian pro-slavery theology. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Obsessed with Stephen Douglas, his political rival, he battled him for decades. Successful as a circuit lawyer, Lincoln built his team of loyalists. Blumenthal reveals how Douglas and Jefferson Davis acting together made possible Lincolns rise. Blumenthal describes 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. Blumenthal portrays Mary as an asset to her husband, a rare woman of her day with strong political opinions. He discloses the impact on Lincolns anti-slavery convictions when handling his wifes legal case to recover her fathers fortune in which he discovered her cousin was a slave. Blumenthals robust portrayal is based on prodigious research of Lincolns record and of the period and its main players. It reflects both Lincolns time and the struggle that consumes our own political debate--;Volume 1. 1809-1849. A self made man. -- Volume 2. 1849-1856. Wrestling with his angel. -- Volume 3. 1856-1860. All the powers of Earth.;v.3. Timeline of Major Events ; Cast of Major Characters ; Things fall apart ; Vaulting ambition ; The spirit of violence ; War to the knife ; The puritan as prophet ; Cyclops ; A voice from the grave ; The harlot slavery ; The assassination of Charles Sumner ; Arguments of the chivalry ; Exterminating angel ; Democracy in America ; Creation ; Miss Fancy ; The forbidden word ; Vice president Lincoln ; The birther campaign ; The great awakening ; The white man ; All the powers of Earth ; The wizard of Mississippi ; The unmasking of the president ; A house divided ; The higher object ; The moral lights ; The phoenix ; Icarus ; This guilty land ; Witch Hunt ; Right makes might ; Walpurgisnacht ; The railsplitter ; The wigwam ; A fallen star ; Wide-awake.;v. 2. Timeline of Major Events ; Cast of Major Characters ; Wrestling with His Angel ; White Negroes ; The Civil War of Old Rough and Ready ; The Art of the Deal ; The Consequences of Peace ; What Is to Be Done? ; A Heros Welcome ; The Making of a Dark Horse ; The Victory March of Old Fuss and Feathers ; The Death of Henry Clay ; The Waterloo of the Whigs ; The Acting President of the United States ; I, Thomas Hart Benton ; The Triumph of the F Street Mess ; A Self-Evident Lie ; Citizen Know Nothing ; The Conquest of Kansas ; Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Slavery ; Armed Liberty ; The Failure of Free Society ; The Blood of the Revolution ; Senator Lincoln ; The Republican ; Destiny and Power.;v. 1. Timeline of Major Events ; Cast of Major Characters ; The Slave ; The Reader ; The Age of Reason ; The Slasher ; Paradise Lost ; Old Man Eloquent ; The Springfield Lyceum ; The Rivals ; The Romance ; The Prophet ; The Duelist ; Coup dtat ; Infidels ; Great Expectations ; Ranchero Spotty ; The Hayseed ; The Firm ; The Spoils ; A Hundred Keys

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A LSO BY S IDNEY B LUMENTHAL

Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 18491856

A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 18091849

The Strange Death of Republican America

How Bush Rules

The Clinton Wars

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

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ISBN 978-1-4767-7728-3

ISBN 978-1-4767-7731-3 (ebook)

For John Ritch and Christina Ritch

TIMELINE OF MAJOR EVENTS

March 4 1853 Inauguration of Franklin Pierce as president May 30 1854 - photo 6

March 4, 1853:

Inauguration of Franklin Pierce as president

May 30, 1854:

Kansas-Nebraska Act passes the Congress

October 4, 1854:

Lincoln speaks against the Kansas-Nebraska Act at the Illinois House of Representatives

February 8, 1855:

Lincoln, the Whig candidate for the U.S. Senate, recognizes he lacks the votes in the state legislature to win, and throws his support to the antislavery Democrat Lyman Trumbull to defeat the pro-Douglas candidate

August 16, 1855:

Andrew Reeder, the first territorial governor of Kansas, removed by President Pierce for his objections to fraudulent elections

September 28, 1855:

New York Republican Party created out of fusion of Whigs, Democrats, and Free Soilers

October 7, 1855:

John Brown arrives in Kansas

October 23, 1855:

Free state settlers meet at Topeka to adopt a constitution banning slavery in the territory, elect a governor, and designate Andrew Reeder its congressional delegate

November 1855:

Wakarusa War in Kansas between free state and proslavery forces

December 25, 1855:

Christmas dinner at Maryland home of Francis P. Blair to found the national Republican Party

February 22, 1856:

The Know Nothing Party, or American Party, nominates former president Millard Fillmore as its presidential candidate

February 22, 1856:

First national convention of the Republican Party takes place at Pittsburgh

February 22, 1856:

Lincoln writes the platform at a meeting of antislavery editors at Decatur as the founding document of the Illinois Republican Party and calls for its first convention

March 12, 1856:

Stephen A. Douglas submits his report on Kansas to the Senate

May 1920 1856:

Charles Sumner delivers his speech to the Senate, The Crime Against Kansas

May 21, 1856:

Missouri Ruffians led by former senator David Rice Atchison sack the Kansas free state capital of Lawrence

May 22, 1856:

Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina canes Charles Sumner in the Senate

May 2425, 1856:

John Brown and his men murder five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie, Kansas

May 29, 1856:

Lincoln delivers his Lost Speech as the keynote of the founding convention of the Illinois Republican Party

June 6, 1856:

James Buchanan defeats Stephen A. Douglas at the Democratic Party national convention to win nomination as the presidential candidate

June 19, 1856:

John C. Frmont nominated as the first Republican Party presidential candidate; Lincolns name put into nomination for vice president but loses to William Dayton, a former U.S. senator from New Jersey

November 4, 1856:

James Buchanan elected president

March 4, 1857:

Inauguration of James Buchanan as president

March 6, 1857:

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney issues decision in the Dred Scott case

June 12, 1857:

Douglas defends the Dred Scott decision in a speech at Springfield

June 15, 1857:

Fraudulent election in Kansas elects proslavery delegates to a constitutional convention

June 26, 1857:

Lincoln assails the Dred Scott decision in a speech at Springfield, declaring of the captive slave, All the powers of earth seem rapidly combining against him.

August 24, 1857:

The Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company collapses, triggering an economic panic

October 19, 1857:

Proslavery delegates meeting at Lecompton to ratify a Kansas constitution legalizing slavery

November 26, 1857:

Kansas territorial governor Robert J. Walker confronts President Buchanan at the White House on the Lecompton Constitution and is rebuffed

December 3, 1857:

Douglas visits Buchanan at the White House, demands he reject the Lecompton Constitution as a violation of popular sovereignty, and is threatened by the president that he will be crushed

December 8, 1857:

Buchanan endorses the Lecompton Constitution in his first annual message to the Congress

December 9, 1857:

Douglas denounces Buchanan in a speech before the Senate

December 11, 1857:

Frederick P. Stanton, acting territorial governor serving in Walkers absence, dismissed by Buchanan

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