by Sidney Blumenthal
Release Date: May 16,
2017
Volume II of Sidney Blumenthal’s acclaimed, landmark
biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, reveals the future
president’s 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 Blumenthal’s Volume I as, “splendid…no 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 nation’s most profound spiritual crisis—slavery—and
enters the battle for the nation’s soul.
ISBN 978-1501153785, Simon & Schuster, © 2017,
Hardcover, 592 pages, Photographs, Maps & Illustrations, End Notes, Bibliography
& Index. $35.00. To purchase a copy of this book click HERE.
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