A SELF-MADE MAN - The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849

[Angela]

Many thanks to Bill Richter for sending this information:

A SELF-MADE MAN
The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
By Sidney Blumenthal
556 pp. Simon & Schuster

http://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Poli...147677725X

Bill also sent this link to Steven Hahn's review in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/books/....html?_r=0


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Another book which I personally recommend is The Lincoln Assassination Riddle. My wife had cataract surgery yesterday, and I was able to essentially read the entire book in the waiting room. Several of our forum members contributed, and there are many chapters that deal with topics we have covered on the forum. I enjoyed the book - highly interesting. Among other things, you will find out if our own emergency medicine physician, Dr. Blaine Houmes, thinks Abraham Lincoln could have been saved using modern trauma/critical care techniques.

Thank you for this, Roger! First of all - how is your wife doing? Hope she is ok after the surgery!?!

The NY review sounds as if he was able to detect the story behind the "mother" quote - so, interesting.
I tried to log onto the virtualbooksigning the other night to hear his talk - but for some technical reason could not connect. Now it appears that I will have to wait till November to hear him talk and THEN decide whether there really IS need for another biography.
I am really curious!

I just received "April 1865" and have to admit, my heart goes out to Robert E. Lee.
I have never paid too much attention to the Generals and military tactics but this reads like a thriller and the author is a master story teller.
I wonder how things would have been different if Lee and Grant or Lee and Lincoln had met under different circumstances (Lee and Grant DID but there wasn't any room for actually "meeting").