The magisterial ( The New York Times Book Review ) second Volume 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.
Wrestling with His Angel brings Lincoln from the wilderness to the peak of his career as he is determined to enter into the battle for the nation\'s soul and to win it for democracy..
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter hailed Volume II as dramatic narrative history, prophetic and intimate.
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.
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.
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.
In 1855, he makes a race for the Senate against Douglas, which he loses when he throws his support to a rival to prevent the election of a proslavery candidate.
He finally delivers the dramatic speech that leaves observers stunned.
Only he can take on Douglas in Illinois.
Lincoln rises to the occasion.
Violent struggle breaks out on the plains of Kansas, a prelude to the Civil War.
His perennial rival, Stephen Douglas, forges an alliance with the Southern senators and Secretary of War Jefferson Davis.
His Whig Party is broken in the 1852 election, and disintegrates.
In 1849, Abraham Lincoln seems condemned to Political isolation and defeat.
The magisterial ( The New York Times Book Review ) second Volume 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
