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2263650A Self-Made Manhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/a-self-made-man-9781508214090/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2040830/287832d7-ec80-448e-9677-2f4eba7aa946.jpg?v=638383425007200000677677MXNSimon & Schuster AudioInStock/Audiolibros/<p><strong>The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincolnfrom his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliationengaging and informative andthought-provoking (<em>The Christian Science Monitor</em>).</strong></p><p>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 the fascinating (<em>Booklist</em>, starred review) <em>A Self-Made Man</em>, Sidney Blumenthal reveals how Lincolns 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. The Lincoln of Blumenthals pen isa brave progressive facing racist assaults on his religion, ethnicity, and very legitimacy that echo the anti-Obama birther movement.Blumenthal takes the wily pol of Steven Spielbergs <em>Lincoln</em> and Doris Kearns Goodwins <em>Team of Rivals</em> and goes deeper, finding a Vulcan logic and <em>House of Cards</em> ruthlessness (<em>The Washingtonian</em>).</p><p>Based on prodigious research of Lincolns record, and of the period and its main players, Blumenthals robust biography reflects both Lincolns 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. Splendidno one can come away from reading A Self-Made Manwithout eagerly anticipating the ensuing volumes. (<em>Washington Monthly</em>).</p>...2199723A Self-Made Man677677https://www.gandhi.com.mx/a-self-made-man-9781508214090/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2040830/287832d7-ec80-448e-9677-2f4eba7aa946.jpg?v=638383425007200000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20169781508214090_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9781508214090_<p><strong>The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincolnfrom his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliationengaging and informative andthought-provoking (<em>The Christian Science Monitor</em>).</strong></p><p>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 the fascinating (<em>Booklist</em>, starred review) <em>A Self-Made Man</em>, Sidney Blumenthal reveals how Lincolns 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. The Lincoln of Blumenthals pen isa brave progressive facing racist assaults on his religion, ethnicity, and very legitimacy that echo the anti-Obama birther movement.Blumenthal takes the wily pol of Steven Spielbergs <em>Lincoln</em> and Doris Kearns Goodwins <em>Team of Rivals</em> and goes deeper, finding a Vulcan logic and <em>House of Cards</em> ruthlessness (<em>The Washingtonian</em>).</p><p>Based on prodigious research of Lincolns record, and of the period and its main players, Blumenthals robust biography reflects both Lincolns 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. Splendidno one can come away from reading A Self-Made Manwithout eagerly anticipating the ensuing volumes. (<em>Washington Monthly</em>).</p>(*_*)9781508214090_<p><strong>The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincolnfrom his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliationengaging and informative andthought-provoking (<em>The Christian Science Monitor</em>).</strong></p><p>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 the fascinating (<em>Booklist</em>, starred review) <em>A Self-Made Man</em>, Sidney Blumenthal reveals how Lincolns 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. The Lincoln of Blumenthals pen isa brave progressive facing racist assaults on his religion, ethnicity, and very legitimacy that echo the anti-Obama birther movement.Blumenthal takes the wily pol of Steven Spielbergs <em>Lincoln</em> and Doris Kearns Goodwins <em>Team of Rivals</em> and goes deeper, finding a Vulcan logic and <em>House of Cards</em> ruthlessness (<em>The Washingtonian</em>).</p><p>Based on prodigious research of Lincolns record, and of the period and its main players, Blumenthals robust biography reflects both Lincolns 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. Splendidno one can come away from reading A Self-Made Manwithout eagerly anticipating the ensuing volumes. (<em>Washington Monthly</em>).</p>...9781508214090_Simon & Schuster Audioaudiolibro_f58a0f93-6c8a-3109-8d63-a6df8115d9fb_9781508214090;9781508214090_9781508214090Sidney BlumenthalInglésMéxicoNoMINUTE2016-05-10T00:00:00+00:00Simon & Schuster Audio