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"Chris DeRose, the &#8220;gifted young historian&#8221; (Richard Norton Smith) who penned one of The Washington Post&#8217;s &#8220;Best Political Books&#8221; with 2011&#8217;s Founding Rivals, draws from the unpublished &#8220;Papers of Abraham Lincoln,&#8221; and other rare sources, to deliver the first fully realized portrait of Lincoln&#8217;s controversial early political career.  The years 1847 through 1849, though marked by defeat and divisiveness for Washington&#8217;s newest arrival, ultimately defined Lincoln&#8217;s future as president during America&#8217;s darkest days. With keen insights sprung from his exhaustive research, DeRose portrays Congressman Lincoln as a leader torn between principle and viability, who once nearly dueled a political adversary; a master strategist and member of the Whig party; a reluctant husband saddled with a tormented private life; and more&#8212;in a biography so timely and relevant that House Speaker John A. Boehner quoted Congressman Lincoln at length in a 2013 address to House Republicans, excerpting Lincoln&#8217;s warnings about government debt &#8220;growing with a rapidity fearful to contemplate.&#8221;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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