Heston blumenthal brief biography of abraham lincoln
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A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849by Sidney Blumenthal.
Heston blumenthal brief biography of abraham lincoln
Simon & Schuster, 2016. Cloth, ISBN: 978-1476777252. $35.00.
In the first book of his multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln, Sidney Blumenthal chronicles the early life and political development of the venerated sixteenth president of the United States.
As his title suggests, Blumenthal joins with several other recent biographers and historians in emphasizing the centrality of politics in the rise of Abraham Lincoln’s career as a politician and prominent Illinois lawyer. In analyzing Lincoln’s early life, Blumenthal makes much of Lincoln’s intense internal struggles and insecurities as a young man, along with his escape from his early years as a self-described “slave” living with a demanding father.
When he became a member of the ascendant Republican Party following the demise of the Whigs, Blumenthal writes that the lanky backwoods lawyer finally emerged as “the Abraham Linc