{"product_id":"the-great-comeback-how-abraham-lincoln-beat-the-odds-to-win-the-1860-republican-nomination","title":"The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 presidential nomination. In tracing Lincolns 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  he was nevertheless seen as the darkest of dark horses for the highest office in the land. Upon hearing Lincoln speak  one contemporary said  I will not say he reminded me of Satan  but he certainly was the ungodliest figure I had ever seen.\" The reader sees how this \"ungodliest\" of figures shrewdly spun his platform to crowds far and wide and  in doing so  became a public celebrity on par with any throughout the land. This is a story teeming with drama and intrigue about an event that no one could fathom occurring today...yet it absolutely happened in with America seven score and eight years ago  when Lincoln  the man  took his first steps on the way toward becoming Abraham Lincoln  the legendary leader and most respected president of American history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952340168757,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312374135","price":28.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312374136.jpg?v=1770160090","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-great-comeback-how-abraham-lincoln-beat-the-odds-to-win-the-1860-republican-nomination","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}