Sidney Blumenthal Tells Story of Lincoln’s Political Evoluti
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The Lincoln biographer and Clinton family adviser discusses his newest book.
According to some estimates, almost 15,000 books have been written about Abraham Lincoln. But that didn’t stop Chicago native and author Sidney Blumenthal from taking another look at Lincoln’s transformation into perhaps this country’s greatest president.
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Sidney Blumenthal Tells Story of Lincoln’s Political Evoluti
Clip: 6/12/2017 | 14m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
According to some estimates, almost 15,000 books have been written about Abraham Lincoln. But that didn’t stop Chicago native and author Sidney Blumenthal from taking another look at Lincoln’s transformation into perhaps this country’s greatest president.
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