All the Powers of Earth, Sidney Blumenthal
All the Powers of Earth, Sidney Blumenthal
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All the Powers of Earth
The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860

Author: Sidney Blumenthal

Narrator: Jack de Golia

Unabridged: 28 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/08/2019


Synopsis

In All the Powers of Earth, Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed through the great biographer's extraordinary research and literary style.

After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a senate seat. He sidelines the front-runner William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party's nomination.

All the Powers of Earth is the political story of all time. Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political savvy and determination. This is Abraham Lincoln, who indisputably becomes the greatest president and moral leader in the nation's history. But he must first build a new political party, brilliantly state the anti-slavery case and overcome shattering defeat to win the presidency. In the years of civil war to follow, he will show mightily that the nation was right to bet on him. He was its preserver, a politician of moral integrity.

About Sidney Blumenthal

Sidney 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

I have been trying very, very hard to get in sync with this series, as so many others have managed to do, based on the reviews I’ve seen. Volume one felt like a letdown to me, while I was more generous in my assessment of volume two, as I thought I was beginning to get a better idea of where Blument......more

Goodreads review by Brian

When I first saw the title of the 3rd volume (of 5) of the The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, at first I thought, with the book culminating in Lincoln's election as President, that it must be a quote from Lincoln himself about the pinnacle of power (also, with shades of Daniel Day-Lewis's Oscar......more

Goodreads review by Stan

Review of: Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856, and All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860, by Sidney Blumenthal by Stan Prager (4-15-23) On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of th......more

Goodreads review by Michael

When Sidney Blumenthal began his five volume biography of Lincoln (called The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln) one can only assume that he was thinking about uncovering some new angle on Lincoln - some new perspective on his political skills that other biographers had ignored or under represented.......more