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Volume II of Sidney Blumenthals acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, reveals the future presidents 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 Douglas, forges an alliance with the Southern senators and Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. Violent struggle breaks out on the plains of Kansas, a prelude to the Civil War.
Lincoln rises to the occasion. Only he can take on Douglas in Illinois, and he finally delivers the dramatic speech that leaves observers stunned. In 1855, he makes a race for the Senate, which he loses when he throws his support to a rival to prevent the election of a proslavery candidate. Now, in Wrestling With His Angel, Sidney Blumenthal explains how Lincoln and his friends operate behind the scenes to destroy the anti-immigrant party in Illinois to clear the way for a new Republican Party. Lincoln takes command and writes its first platform and vaults onto the national stage as the leader of a party that will launch him to the presidency.
The Washington Monthly hailed Blumenthals Volume I as, splendidno one can come away from reading A Self-Made Man without eagerly anticipating the ensuing volumes. Now, in one of the greatest American success stories, Wrestling With His Angel brings Lincoln from the wilderness to the peak of his career as he takes control of the nations most profound spiritual crisisslaveryand enters the battle for the nations soul.
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A LSO BY S IDNEY B LUMENTHAL
A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 18091849
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Blumenthal, Sidney, 1948
Title: Wrestling with his angel : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 18491856 / Sidney Blumenthal.
Description: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: ISBN 9781501153785 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501153792 (trade paper) | ISBN 9781501153808 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Lincoln, Abraham, 18091865Political career before 1861. | Lincoln, Abraham, 18091865Political and social views. | Lincoln, Abraham, 18091865Childhood and youth. | Lincoln, Abraham, 18091865Marriage. | PoliticiansIllinoisBiography. | LawyersIllinoisSpringfieldBiography. | IllinoisPolitics and governmentTo 1865. | United StatesPolitics and government18151861. | PresidentsUnited StatesBiography. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State. | HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (18501877). | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
Classification: LCC E457.35 .B55 2016 | DDC 973.7092dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015027339
ISBN 978-1-5011-5378-5
ISBN 978-1-5011-5380-8 (ebook)
For Paul and Alison
March 31, 1849: Lincoln returns to Springfield from Washington to practice law
July 16, 1849: Robert S. Todd dies
October 28November 7, 1849:Lincoln in Lexington, Kentucky, to serve as co-counsel in the Todd Heirs v. Wickliffe case
February 1, 1850: Edward Baker Lincoln dies
March 31, 1850: John C. Calhoun dies
July 9, 1850: President Zachary Taylor dies
September 7, 1850: The Compromise of 1850 passes the Congress
September 20, 1850: The Illinois Central Railroad Tax Act passes the Congress
December 21, 1850: William Wallace Lincoln born
January 17, 1851: Thomas Lincoln dies
April 13, 1851: Captured fugitive slave Thomas Sims marched in chains through the streets of Boston to a federal warship to be returned to his master in Georgia
June 1, 1851: Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin begins serialized publication in the abolitionist Washington, D.C., newspaper, the National Era
October 1, 1851: Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick, or The Whale published
December 5, 1851: Louis Kossuth, Hungarian revolutionary, arrives in New York City
January 8, 1852: Lincoln writes a resolution at a Springfield meeting expressing sympathy for liberal revolutions in Europe
January 1852: The Democratic Review , supporting the presidential candidacy of Stephen A. Douglas and under the editorship of his adviser George Nicholas Sanders, insults his rivals
June 5, 1852: Franklin Pierce nominated as the Democratic Party presidential candidate
June 20, 1852: Winfield Scott nominated as the Whig Party presidential candidate
June 29, 1852: Henry Clay dies
July 6, 1852: Lincoln delivers his eulogy for Henry Clay
August 11, 1852: John P. Hale nominated as the Free Soil Party, or Free Democratic Party, presidential candidate
August 14 and 26: Lincoln speaks in Springfield on behalf of Winfield Scotts campaign
October 24, 1852: Daniel Webster dies
November 2, 1852: Franklin Pierce elected president
March 4, 1853: Franklin Pierce inaugurated as president
March 5, 1853: President Pierce offers Jefferson Davis the cabinet position of secretary of war
April 4, 1853: Thomas Tad Lincoln born
April 18, 1853: Vice President William R. King dies; Senate president pro tempore David Rice Atchison next in line of succession to the presidency
December 30, 1853: Gadsden Treaty negotiated with Mexico
1854: Publication of Sociology for the South, or The Failure of Free Society , by George Fitzhugh
January 22, 1854: Stephen A. Douglas and members of the F Street Mess meet at the White House with President Pierce and Jefferson Davis to negotiate the terms of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
January 24, 1854: The Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to the People of the United States, signed by senators Salmon P. Chase and Charles Sumner, to protest the Kansas-Nebraska Act, published
February 28, 1854: First meeting of a group calling itself the Republican Party, Ripon, Wisconsin
April 1, 1854: Lincoln writes a private refutation of Fitzhughs Sociology for the South
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