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A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President
Palgrave Macmillan
November 2007
On Sale: October 30, 2007
256 pages ISBN: 140397635X EAN: 9781403976352 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Historical
The year 1856 was a pivotal one for this country, witnessing
the birth of the Republican Party as we know it.But it was
also a critical year in the troubled political life of
Abraham Lincoln.As a lawyer, he tried his most scandalous
murder case.At the same time, he made a decision which
unleashed his soaring abilities for the first time, a
decision which reverberates to this day: whether or not to
join the new Republican Party.The Case of Abraham Lincoln
offers the first-ever account of the suspenseful Anderson
Murder Case, and Lincoln's role in it.Bestselling historian
Fenster not only examines the case that changed Lincoln's
fate, but portrays his day-to-day life as a circuit lawyer
and how it shaped him as a politician. In a book that draws
a picture of Lincoln in court and at home during that
memorable season of 1856, Fenster also offers a close-up
look at Lincoln's political work, much of it masterful, some
of it adventurous, in building the party that would change
his fate - and that of the nation.
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