The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most
consequential political moment in American history—Abraham
Lincoln’s history-changing nomination to lead the Republican
Party in the 1860 presidential election Illinois lawyer Abraham
Lincoln had a record of political failure. In 1858, he had lost a
celebrated Senate bid against incumbent Stephen Douglas, his second
failed Senate run, and had not held public office since one term in
Congress a decade earlier. As the Republican National Convention
opened in mid-May 1860 in Chicago, powerful New York Senator
William Seward was the overwhelming favorite for the presidential
nomination, with notables like Salmon Chase and Edward Bates in the
running. Few thought Lincoln stood a chance—though stubborn
Illinois circuit Judge David Davis had come to fight for his friend
anyway. Such was the political landscape as Edward
Achorn’s The Lincoln Miracle opens on Saturday, May
12, 1860. Chronicling the tense political drama as it unfolded over
the next six days, Achorn explores the genius of Lincoln’s quiet
strategy, the vicious partisanship tearing apart America, the
fierce battles raging over racism and slavery, and booming Chicago
as a symbol of the modernization transforming the nation. Closely
following the shrewd insiders on hand, from Seward power broker
Thurlow Weed to editor Horace Greeley — bent on stopping his
former friend, Seward—Achorn brings alive arguably the most
consequential political story in America’s history. From smoky
hotel rooms to night marches by the Wide Awakes, the new Republican
youth organization, to fiery speeches on the floor of the giant
convention center called The Wigwam, Achorn portrays a political
climate even more contentious than our own today, out of which the
seemingly impossible long shot prevailed, to the nation’s
everlasting benefit. As atmospheric and original as Achorn’s
previous Every Drop of Blood, The Lincoln
Miracle is essential reading for any Lincoln aficionado as it
is for anyone who cares about our nation’s history.
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