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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sidney Blumenthal , Jack De GoliaPublisher: Tantor Audio Imprint: Tantor Audio ISBN: 9781665205085ISBN 10: 1665205083 Publication Date: 08 October 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAn entertaining, Wolf Hall-esque treatment that will please Blumenthal's fans and win new ones. -- Publishers Weekly Blumenthal speaks to our own time and, through Lincoln's life and work, asks us to consider what price expediency and ego cost democracy. Brilliant, compelling, and memorable. -- Library Journal (starred review) Brilliantly illuminates qualities of leadership that are as important in our own time as they were during the tumultuous years that led to Civil War. This epic and path-breaking work deserves to be widely read and studied. -- Michael Beschloss, New York Times bestselling author Sstunningly thorough, both wide-angled and microscopic. He quotes from newspapers, books, speeches, congressional transcripts, and numerous other sources. At the beginning, he includes a timeline of major events and cast of major characters. As essential as any political biography is likely to be. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) With painstaking research illuminated by penetrating insight, Blumenthal limns the ascent of the Great Emancipator in a turbulent era. -- Booklist (starred review) Author InformationSidney Blumenthal is the acclaimed author of A Self-Made Man and Wrestling with His Angel, the first two volumes in his five-volume biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln. He is the former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton. He has been a national staff reporter for the Washington Post and Washington editor and writer for the New Yorker. His books include the bestselling The Clinton Wars, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, and The Permanent Campaign. Born and raised in Illinois, he lives in Washington, DC. Jack de Golia has narrated over seventy-five audiobooks in a wide range of genres. His narrations include the Project series by Alex Lukeman and Remembering the Battle of the Crater by Kevin Levin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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