The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination (David Ecelbarger - LP) gottfried Gottfried’s efforts to study and

Gottfried’s efforts to study and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War’s Eastern Theater

John Wilkes Booth stood in the ranks of one of its future companies at John Brown’s hanging

and Harold Holzer -- eminent experts in their fields -- remember

he calls upon his years of Civil War historical research to recount some of the heroic deeds of the conflict that threatened the very existence of the United States of America

The result is a carefully balanced yet provocative study that views the proclamation and its author from the perspective of fellow Republicans

The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination (David Ecelbarger - LP) gottfried Gottfried’s efforts to study andby Gary Ecelbarger In the fall of 1858, Abraham Lincoln looked to be anything but destined for greatness. Just shy of his fiftieth birthday, Lincoln was wallowing in the depths of despair following his loss to Stephen Douglas in the 1858 senatorial campaign and was taking stock in his life. The author takes us on a journey with Abraham Lincoln from the last weeks of 1858 until the end of May in 1860, on the road to his unlikely Republication