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100 1 $aEcelbarger, Gary L.,$d1962-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97056503
245 14 $aThe great comeback :$bhow Abraham Lincoln beat the odds to win the Republican nomination /$cGary Ecelbarger.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bThomas Dunne Books,$c2008.
300 $axii, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-273) and index.
505 00 $tBloomington, Illinois: December 1858 -- $g1.$tRecovery -- $g2.$tDivided House -- $g3.$tChase's Backyard -- $g4.$tThe Giant Killer -- $g5.$tBirth of a Boom -- $g6.$tWinter Heat -- $g7.$tSeward's Backyard -- $g8.$tThe Candidate -- $g9.$tThe Rail Splitter -- $g10.$tConvention Week -- $g11.$tThe Wigwam -- $g12.$tThe Nominee.
520 1 $a"In the winter of 1858-59, 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 of his life. In The Great Comeback, historian Gary Ecelbarger takes us on the road with Abraham Lincoln, from the last weeks of 1858 to his unlikely Republican presidential nomination in the middle of May 1860." "In tracing Lincoln's steps from city to city, from one public appearance to the next along the campaign trail, we see the future president shape and polish his public persona. Although he had accounted himself well in the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, the man from Springfield, Illinois, was nevertheless seen as the darkest of dark horses for the highest office in the land. Upon hearing Lincoln speak, one contemporary said, "Mr. Lincoln has an ungainly figure, but one loses sight of that, or rather the first impression disappears in the absorbed attention which the matter of the speech commands." The reader sees how this "ungainly figure" shrewdly spun his platform to crowds far and wide and, in doing so, became a public celebrity on par with any throughout the land."--BOOK JACKET.
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650 0 $aPolitical campaigns$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1857-1861.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140440
610 20 $aRepublican Party (U.S. : 1854- )$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80067040
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