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We will hear in this talk about how lincoln crafted and refined it. [applause] Sidney Blumenthal well, thank you very much for those kind and generous words. I have been delighted to spend a number of years in the 19th century, and im looking forward to spending more of them there. [laughter] [applause] Sidney Blumenthal i am deeply honored for this invitation to address the lincoln forum, and i thank chief williams, the chairman, and carol hauser, the vicechairman, who have both devoted themselves for decades to writing and education on abraham lincoln. And i particularly pleased to be here on the 21st lincoln forum. As frank noted, this year i published the first of a multivolume political biography of lincoln entitled the selfmade man. It describes a poor, stunted and oppressed boy who hammers together, on his own, the elements of the men who will be lincoln. The sec ....
We will hear in this talk about how lincoln crafted and refined it. [applause] Sidney Blumenthal well, thank you very much for those kind and generous words. I have been delighted to spend a number of years in the 19th century, and im looking forward to spending more of them there. [laughter] [applause] Sidney Blumenthal i am deeply honored for this invitation to address the lincoln forum, and i thank chief williams, the chairman, and carol hauser, the vicechairman, who have both devoted themselves for decades to writing and education on abraham lincoln. And i particularly pleased to be here on the 21st lincoln forum. As frank noted, this year i published the first of a multivolume political biography of lincoln entitled the selfmade man. It describes a poor, stunted and oppressed boy who hammers together, on his own, the elements of the men who will be lincoln. The sec ....
Williams, the chairman, and carol hauser, the vicechairman, who have both devoted themselves for decades to writing and education on abraham lincoln. I am particularly pleased to be here on the 21st lincoln forum. As frank noted, this year i published the first of a multivolume political biography of lincoln entitled the selfmade man. It describes a poor, stunted and oppressed boy who hammers together, on his own, the elements of the man who will be lincoln. The second volume, to be published next year, entitled wrestling with his angel places with his angel, places lincoln entering the political wilderness after leaving the congress and emerging as the man who was lincoln. I am speaking here tonight about this crucible, the period in which lincoln committed himself to putting slavery on the course of ultimate extinction as he declared in his cooper union address. And as he grappled to create the means to his ends. Lincoln had always been, as he put it, naturally antislavery. He was on ....
SARANAC LAKE A day before third and fourth graders from St. Bernard’s School toured the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and Lake Placid News offices at 54 ....