Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856 (2)

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“Magisterial…A vividly written, wide-ranging and steadily surprising account of the president-to-be.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Masterful.” —Los Angeles Times

Volume II of Sidney Blumenthal’s acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, reveals the future president’s genius all over 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 in any case delivers the dramatic speech that leaves observers stunned. In 1855, he makes a race for the Senate, which he loses when he throws his reinforce 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 in the back of 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 in order to launch him to the presidency.

The Washington Monthly hailed Blumenthal’s Volume I as, “splendid…nobody can come away from reading A Self-Made Man without eagerly anticipating the ensuing volumes.” Now, in probably the most greatest American success stories, Wrestling With His Angel brings Lincoln from the wilderness to the peak of his career as he is taking keep an eye on of the nation’s most profound spiritual crisis—slavery—and enters the battle for the nation’s soul.

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