A self-made man, Sidney Blumenthal
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A self-made man, Sidney Blumenthal
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A self-made man
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Sidney Blumenthal
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Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, bk. 1
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The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincoln-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliation. 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 A Self-Made Man, Sidney Blumenthal reveals how Lincoln'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. Based on prodigious research of Lincoln's record, and of the period and its main players, Blumenthal's robust biography reflects both Lincoln'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
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- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political career before 1861
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Marriage
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Childhood and youth
- Lawyers -- Illinois -- Springfield -- Biography
- Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865
- Politicians -- Illinois -- Biography
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- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political career before 1861
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Marriage
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Childhood and youth
- Lawyers -- Illinois -- Springfield -- Biography
- Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865
- Politicians -- Illinois -- Biography
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