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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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Historical | Non-Fiction
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.
 Media BuzzDiane Rehm Show - NPR - December 4, 2007
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