that is abraham lincoln. we touch very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln. and just to go through some of the details once again abraham lincoln is born in 1809. born the 12th of february. his parents were thomas and nancy hanks lincoln. and lincoln himself was born in hodgenville, kentucky. in a log cabin, yes, quite literally. he doesn't stay in kentucky because in 1818 his parents uproot from kentucky and move north wards across the ohio river into southern indiana. and that is where lincoln grows up. alas that is also where lincoln's mother dies. lincoln's father goes back to kentucky, remarries, and lincoln now has a step mother, sarah bush johnston. now in what is almost an inversion of the old hans el and great el wicked step mother is something of the opposite for abraham lincoln. but sarah bush johnston becomes his mother fully as much as a mother could be. she and her stepson, abraham, are copacetic. something that can't be said about lincoln's relationship with his father

>> reporter: be a him is still considering whether to -- be a map abraham is still -- abraham is still considering whether or not to file a lawsuit against police. >>> joey gibson said he started a group after seeing people leaving a trump rally last year in san jose getting beaten up. he said he's expecting about 500 people at next saturday's rally and thousands of protesters. >> we try to go into all the areas that are extremely in tolerant of thought, of idea. we try to go to the places that are kind of, you know, they have a population that's extremely hateful towards other people. >> gibson says he's trying to bring together moderates. the park service will decide within seven days whether to issue a permit for next saturday. the next day in berkeley another group is planning a rally called no to marxism in america at civic center park. the city is urging the public to stay away saying, "doing so prevents those on the fringe from garnering attention to their causes which is their primary goal." >>> tonight president trump is facing some harsh criticism from a prominent republican.

they say abraham tried to block them. sgt. bruce heinlein/sacramento police:"at that point one of the officers grabbed female by the arm, moved the female to the left. during that time, she fell to the ground." zityrua abraham/woman in body camera video:"i have a baby in my stomach, i'm not just finna (sic) just fall or exaggeratedly fall." sonseeahray tonsall/reporter: "...a pregnant woman. were the actions of the officers appropriate? grabbing her and puling her in an area you recognize had unstable footing?"sgt. bruce heinlein/sacramento police:"so i'm not going to go into what i think. i think that's part of the ongoing administrative investigation that's going on // you know, this was an unfortunate incident that occurred during a very fluid situation."zityrua abraham/woman in body camera video:"i got a one-year-old that lives here. we wasn't (sic) doing nothing but minding our business that day. i knew they were going to try to justify this whole - whole thing. right is right and wrong is wrong and that was wrong what th

here we are with abraham lincoln. abraham lincoln liked to go to the old soldiers home and he would take his items, papers, in this portfolio with we have on loan to us from the abraham lincoln library and museum in illinois. he carried some of the documents he worked on like the emancipation proclamation in the portfolio. in addition, we also have this seal that he used, the seal of the united states. it can be dated to about 1864 by the number of stars on it. it has 36 stars which would indicate when nevada had become a state. with that, we have the storage box made that came with the seal. box ofn interesting holding this item of abraham lincoln's. johnson,ng onto andrew andrew johnson was apprenticed at the age of 10 to a tailor and working for who he awaypprenticed to and ran and went off to be a tailor in a different town. he moved around a little bit. he ended up settling in greenville, tennessee, where he started his own tailoring business. what we have on loan for him is some of his shears and a large iron th

abraham lincoln was once again at the state house april 29th, 1865. he did lay in state in the grand rotunda. in that short amount of time, 50,000 people filed past the president's open casket. it was a phenomenal sight to sigh the number of people that came by horse and buggy that day to pay their respects to the slain president. we have eight of our hearing rooms named after ohio's eight presidents. ohio referred to as the mother of presidents. hear we are standing in the grand hearing room. grant served as president from 1869 to 1877. ohioans loved general grant. he was a hero in all aspects. ohio was part of the union and believed that slavery should not take place. when grant won the victory and the surrender took place in virginia, he was proclaimed the hero. in each of our presidential hearing rooms, we partnered with the historical society and there are artifacts that reside in i a secure case, and many of these artifacts are very interesting. in the grant hearing room, we have a cigar that was smoked by president grant and it's on display for

and abraham lincoln did lay in state in the grand rotunda for 6.5 hours. in that short amount of time, 50,000 people filed past the president's open casket. it was a phenomenal site sight to see people travel to pay their respects to the slain president. throughout the ohio statehouse, we have eight of our hearing rooms named after ohio's eight presidents. ohio sometimes referred to as the mother of presidents and here we are in the grant hearing room. ohioans loved grant. they believed slavery should not take place. and when grant won the victory and the surrender took place in virginia, he was proclaimed a hero. in each of our presidential hearing rooms, we've teamed up with the historical society. and many artifacts are very, very interesting. for example, here in the grant hearing room, we actually have a cigar that was smoked by president grant and it's on display for the public to see. now we're standing in the william mckinley hearing room. william mckinley, another great president that came from ohio, and this particular governor served as governor

they say abraham tried to block them. sgt.heinlein/sacramento police:"at that point one of the officers grabbed female by the arm, moved the female to the left. during that time, she fell to the ground." zityrua abraham/woman in body camera video:"i have a baby in my stomach, i'm not just finna (sic) just fall or exaggeratedly fall." sonseeahray tonsall/reporter: "...a pregnant woman. were the actions of the officers appropriate? grabbing her and puling her in an area you recognize had unstable footing?"sgt. bruce heinlein/sacramento police:"so i'm not going to go into what i think. i think that's part of the ongoing administrative investigation that's going on // you know, this was an unfortunate incident that occurred during a very fluid situation."zityrua abraham/woman in body camera video:"i got a one-year-old that lives here. we wasn't (sic) doing nothing but minding our business that day. i knew they were going to try to justify this whole - whole thing. right is right and wrong is wrong and that was wrong what they did

the founder of the ig nobel prize editor of the annals of improbable research magazine marc abrahams great to have you with us mark welcome to the show now tell us something is getting an ignoble price belittling or actually noble for scientists or is it an honor. well of course i cannot speak for what's in somebody who's mind it's more an honor than not when we give a prize almost always we first get in touch with the person very quietly and we offer them the prize we give them the chance to decline to turn down this great honor if they want to so if somebody says no they don't get the prize so everybody's getting a prize pretty much has agreed to do it and then they come here to the united states at their own expense to be part of the ig nobel prize ceremony but you feel like it's an ornery right oh yeah it means you've done something that makes people laugh and then think and that's kind of wonderful in its way i know there are what seven yeah there are what seven billion people on the planet more or less and that's a lot of people and for most people including especially scientis

with his angel: the political life of abraham lincoln". he spoke about the book at the annual chicago tribune printers row lit fest. this is 45 minutes. >> good afternoon everyone and welcome to the 33rd annual chicago tribune printers row lit fest. my name is tom and i would like to thank all of the festival sponsors for keeping us going this long. today's program is being broadcast live on c-span2's booktv. we will be having time to take some questions toward the end of the program so when time comes please line up at the microphone at your right so that the home the audience can hear questions good with that i will go to our interview, elizabeth taylor, literary editor at large as chicago tribune. [applause] >> are these microphones on? great! you can hear me? thank you so much for coming out. this is a wonderful turnout for a wonderful book. and we are delighted to be here. in this chair one year ago i was here talking about the first volume of sidney blumenthal for volumes on lincoln.i'm excited about this one. i love that one and thi

marc abrahams a founder of a nobel prize which awards to world's funniest scientific achieved. saying the world's most improbable research welcome back to the show so mark how do you even find all the studies that are out there or do you have to go through every single publication error or single journal to find something eccentric. everything is eccentric if you look at the right way we're always looking for things and we as about one hundred people at the ignoble board of governors spread around the world but more than that we've been doing this for twenty six years and it's going to be fairly well known every day every single day i get a flood of nominations from around the world anybody can send in a nomination so if somebody's listening today knows about a person who deserves an ignoble prize tell us in a typical year nine thousand or so new nominations and anything we don't give a prize to this year we look at again next year so there's a lot of stuff out there i should mention it's not just science we give prizes in other fields for example we gave a prize one year to th

abraham lincoln supported it. james buchanan signed off on it, and congress passed it. and i believe three states began the process but by that time fort sumter happen story of the 13th amendment is a story is that should remind us not to assume things about -- about the past that is more our political interest and beliefs so that was -- there you have it. there were a lot of people willing to stop a war they did not want. that they knew would bring great destruction and sadness, and tragedy to this country. and they almost did it but didn't ruin it. >> reported staying in the union or -- vice versa support going to scwar? >> in the south i would say that upper southern states at the beginning of the secession crisis wanted to stay in the union if slavery could be preserved in some way and could be guaranteed that -- safety of this of their economic prosperity . virginia turned down secession other states did too. they didn't want to do it unless they could -- flls they were forced and that's why sumter was important, the issue for them is there would be no cohearse to

here we are with abraham lincoln, the 16th president of the united states. abraham liked to go to the old soldiers home, and when he would go, he would take his items, his papers in this portfolio, which is on loan to us, and they thought that he carried some of the documents he worked done with the emancipation proclamation in the portfolio. in addition, we also have this seal used, dated to 1864, because of the number of stars and it would indicate that nevada had become a state and we have the storage box that was made. i'm not sure when it was made. seal, and isthe interesting because it is like a little relic box. then, moving on, andrew johnson . andrew johnson was an apprentice at the age of 10 to a tailor and did not like what he was apprenticed to and ran away and went off to be a tailor in a different town. he moved around a little bit but settled suddenly in greenville, tennessee, where he started his own tailoring business. we have on loan some of his shears and a large iron. iron weighs about 10 pounds. he was a successful businessman at doing t

associate professor of history at the university of miami, in ohio, where he teaches courses on abraham lincoln, the civil war, and modern europe. earned his phd in 1993 from brown university. he has devoted much of his career to discussing the 16th resident of the united states. he is also the author of a number of books. his first two books were on european history. one is on the paris commune. and the other is on the dreyfus affair. and unlike most of us, he can -- who canbetween only write between 1861-1865, martin is able to go into other fields and be successful in doing so. martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize. he received that prize for writing the gettysburg address. writing the gettysburg address is a superb book. it takes readers on lincoln's journey to gettysburg. i don't want to get going too much of martin's talk, but i will simply say this, that it andals how lincoln's electoral process kept going, that he was revising, rethinking, coming to gettysburg. and this is a piece of detective and two years ago, in february, the dead of winter, it was snowing, and he gav

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next we'll focus on the civil war and america's 16th president, abraham lincoln. we're starting at gettysburg civil war institute for a look at president lincoln's lasting legacy. >>> good evening, i am peter carmichael. professor of history at gettysburg college and the director of the civil war institute. i'm very pleased to welcome good friend harrell holzer to cwi. [ applause ] harold is the jonathan f. fan on the director of hunter college's roosevelt house public policy institute. you don't have an acronym for that, do you, like cwi. it doesn't doesn't work, does it? before coming to the roosevelt house he previously served an senior vice president for public affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. for the previous ten years he cochaired the u.s. abraham lincoln bicentennial collision appointed by president clinton and i should ade president bush awarded harold the national humanities medal in 2008. harold has authored or co-authored or edited 52 books. that's what you're up to now. i know you think i've read 52 books in my life. his latest mayor book is

walk along you can see nelson rockefeller, william seward on the wall behind me of the door who was abraham lincoln's secretary of state during the civil war. grover cleveland who went on theodore roosevelt who went on to become president. to become president. i think that certainly franklin delano roosevelt had an incredible impact. he came back into public service after being a state senator and then contracting polio when he was 39 years old. encouraged by his wife and friends to run for governor. and that, of course, led to the presidency during the incredible time in america's history world war ii and the great depression. grover cleveland went from being mayor of buffalo to governor and then on to the presidency. he was the only president to serve two terms with an interruption in the middle. martin van buren was governor in 1828. and was from this area, and his home is not far from here. there is one governor who was impeached, his name was william salzer. he was governor in 1913. and it seems like it -- in retrospect, it seems like it might have been, you know, he might have been se

there are 77 famous faces include people like abraham lincoln, ulyssess s. grant and then there are many, many faces of people who we know nothing, called the capitol unknowns, thought to be friends and family of the stone carvers. stone carvers were very important in the construction of this building, especially the staircase. they worked 10-hour days, were paid $5 a day for that which was a good wage at that time. and most of them came from the briti britishizeles, scotland and ireland and england. the staircase opened in 1898. it had taken 14 years to construct. by the time it opened the capitol had gotten electricity. so the lights behind me were electric lights when the staircase was actually inaugurated. this is also a good place to talk about the beginnings of the capitol, how it began and the famous architects who worked on it. because after the civil war, when the state decided it needed a larger and new capitol, a design contest was held. and the winner was a canadian. his fame was thomas fuller and he game up with a gorgeous design for the buildin

abraham lincoln did.on arm came into the south and killed over 70,000 southern civilians, men, women, and children, black and white, slave and free. so, yeah, they did that. you can study some history and find that out. it's very easy to look at. as far as comparing robert e. lee -- >> abraham lincoln, anti-slavery, as a result of that, states wanted to secede. i don't think we want to compare adolf hitler and abraham lincoln. bill, thank you so much. thank you. we got to go. historian, i just got to bring you right in. >> well, i mean, i was ready to talk to this gentleman about the pain of eras where people are -- fight for the losing side and the lost cause and the fact that we don't hold every foot soldier responsible for the actions of their commanders, but then he compared abraham lincoln to adolf hitler. >> you can't compare abraham lincoln -- >> let me say. we are in a very, very emotional moment. >> we are. and that's why i wanted to have him on, by the way. it was my idea. i wanted to have the s

abraham lincoln picked it up. the decision and said it was a shocker, and used the dissent in his speech at cooper union, which was the speech that propelled him to the head of the republican party and helped get him the nomination, and then all followed. he was really an abolitionist at heart. they knew that in the south. and the civil war followed. cheney'st was justice idea, he was wrong. justices are not politicians. they may have some exposure to politics, but they are not even junior league, and i can explain that later if you wish. [laughter] charlie: i do. but i just talked last week in the chambers at the supreme court to justice ruth bader ginsburg. she said to me that she would like to see more of a conversation between the court and the congress. justice breyer: it is hard to get a conversation going. charlie: but you understand what she means? justice breyer: absolutely, absolutely because sometimes you can find something in a statute -- say why did you -- she has written -- charlie: or had them think

ana méndez, ciudad de méxico "en este exclusivo fraccionamiento, real esmeralda, se escondía abrahamquinceañero. hasta este lugar llegó el operativo de la secretaría de la defensa nacional. en el operativo se utilizaron vehículos artillados para garantizar la detención" en un comunicado, la procuradura general de la republica inform que durante el operativo tambin fue detenido filiberto n... adems se asegur un kilo de una substancia parecida al cristal... por supuesto, la detencin en una regin altamente vigilada, provoc reacciones en la poblacin... eduardo /habitante del estado de mxico piensen que a lo mejor aquí no hay tanta una percepción menor del narcotráfico y por eso piensan que no los buscan tanto como en otros lugares del país gerardo rodrguez, especialista en temas de seguridad nacional explica que "el quinceaÑero" tena una misin: era la mano derecha y el principal operador financiero de dmaso lpez serrano, alias el mini lic, quin se entreg a las autoridades de estados unidos hace cinco das en calexico, california... gerardo rodríguez / analista es fácil que compren casas d

unique role of a president of speaking for the moral conscience of a country going all the way back to abraham lincoln. not comparing him to me. comparing him to his great predecessors and to the modern predecessors who, on occasions like this, would rise to the occasion, speak on behalf of americans, and denounce unequivocally -- >> he did that. >> yes, but that he tempered it today. he undid all that by saying yes, reading the statement yesterday, what he really meant is there was anger, violence, evil on both sides. >> bill: laura. >> missing the point here.

it's a battle that was summed up by president abraham lincoln in the late summer of 1863 when he wrote to rosecrans, he says i cannot forget will i remember anything that at the end of the last year and the beginning of this you gave us a hard-earned victory that had it been a defeat instead the nation could have scarcely lived over it. . that's a huge statement and that makes the experience and the defense that rosecrans's army puts up at stones river to my mind one of the great defenses not just of the civil war but one of the great defenses in american history because one what are the two things that make a great defense? the first is context. the stakes, are the stakes high. the other aspect if there's a drama or sublime aspect to the defense. if you put the two factors together as i submit they are in stones river then off great defense not just of a conflict

the portrait of abraham lincoln, for instance, is above the speaker's rostrum.a portrait of george washington hangs over the leadership desk. the picture of lincoln is actually done by cogswell who was an artist who steketched lincoln and did paintings from his sketches during the civil war. abraham lincoln in 1900, 1910, would have been considered a -- as significant as george washington would have been. so you had two significant presidents hanging in our chambers with the reminder that we are connected to the united states. california being so far west and not a lot in between, the idea that we would create the look of the capitol with as close to what the united states capitol looked like, we were the wild west, building this huge building with a dome and columns, very similar in look and style to the united states capitol. that wasn't by mistake. it was the idea we were part of this particular government right now, this is who our identity is. so you see a lot of symbolism in the rooms. in fact the green color of the assembly and the red color of the senate

abraham lincoln met with his cabinet in what is today called the lincoln bedroom. it was actually his office in his era. he did everything there. richard nixon rarely worked in the oval office. it is used more by some presidents, left by others. and i think -- this is what the gentleman was talking about, the power and symbolism is nothing like it in the world. it is smaller than it looks on square feetout 700 awso, but you are just in e. awe-inspiring filling to be in that room. "under thisre, roof" is the name of his book. thank you for joining us of the essay. skype. representative hoyer will be talking about daca. this is a setup for people came to the uss children and met several guidelines for deferred action. event.n his way to the he should be here shortly. you on ourupdate live coverage plans. president trump is at the white earlier speaking to reporters in addressing the nation on violence in charlottesville, virginia. in about 30 five minutes, he is expected to sign a memorandum onh china's laws intellectual property and technology. that will be live at

next we'll focus on the civil war and america's 16th president, abraham lincoln. we're start at gettysburg college's civil war institute for a look at president lincoln's lasting legacy. >>> good evening, i am peter carmichael. professor of history at gettysburg college and the director of the civil war institute. i'm very pleased to welcome good friend harrell holzer to cwi. [ applause ] harold is the jonathan f. fan on the director of hunter college's roosevelt house public policy institute.on the director of hunter college's roosevelt house public policy institutton the director of hunter college's roosevelt house public policy instituton the director of hunter college's roosevelt house public policy institutton the director of hunter college's roosevelt house public policy institute. you don't have an acronym for that, do you, like cwi. it doesn't doesn't work, does it? before coming to the roosevelt house he previously served an senior vice president for public affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. for the previous ten years he cochaired the u.s. abraham

abraham lincoln picked it up. read his decision, said this is a shocker. then used the dissent in his speech at cooper union, which was the speech that propelled him to the head of the republican party and helped get him the nomination, and then all followed. he was really an abolitionist at heart, they knew that in the south, and then the civil war followed. so if that was taney's idea, he was wrong. judges are not good politicians. they may have some exposure to politics, but that's what i mean when i say junior league, but they're not even junior league, and i can explain that later, if you wish. >> rose: i do. ( laughter ) but i just talked last week in the chambers of the supreme court to justice ruth bader ginsberg, and she said to me that, you know, she would like to see more of a conversation between the court and the congress. >> it's hard to fee get a conversation going. >> rose: but you understand what she means? >> absolutely. absolutely, because sometimes you can find something in a statute and say why did you -- she's written that -- >> rose:

if i can squeeze in between abraham baldwin, he's from georgia and he's here because he's the last guyo sign. he's gesturing towards the constitution itself. now i'm standing between george washington and james madison. you can see george washington is the tallest man in the room at 6'2". he is literally towering over everyone else. in physical presence he is commanding in every respect. james madison, i am absolutely towering over. i think he was 5'4" and is the smallest guy in the room. so thin boned and wan. he had epilepsy. he had challenges in health. there's a great new biography by lynn cheney who came to the constitution center recently and talked about madison's illness and his physical frailty shaped many of his ideas and created this great man, the father of the constitution, he was the single father who was so devoted to moderation and pragmatism and compromise. the great genius of the constitution was the balancing and mixing of interests. the challenge for the men in this room was how to balance interest at times that seemed irreconcilable. the biggest difference was over

i don't talk as much about abraham lincoln but mary todd lincoln and her brother who was wounded in the battle of shiloh and that awful tension, you are first lady of the united states but the media is happy to talk in a very ugly way about the fact that you have brothers serving in the confederacy. and how she dealt with that and i want to talk about the death of their son willie who died in spring of 1862, to make people realize both presidents, daviss and lincoln lose a child during the war. wasn't like these elite families who remained untouched. they are suffering as well. when i talk about jefferson davis i did the same thing, talk more about his wife who i like better than jefferson davis. it was neat seeing that. that way, you get people in these stories. i can't talk about the civil war without talking about the lincoln assassination. it is endlessly fascinating to me and readers. but i tell it from the perspective of claire harris who is there with her fiancÉ in the presidential box when president lincoln is assassinated and whose husband she is engaged to at the time and is t

.chedule, go to booktv.org >> up next on american history tv, a conversation with abraham lincoln scholar harold holzer. he discusses his career as a historian and his research and shares his view on current events linked to abraham lincoln and the civil war. peter carmichael, director of the gettysburg college civil war institute, conduct the interview, which is just over an hour. carmichael: good evening, everyone. i am peter carmichael, professor .f history i am pleased to welcome good friend harold holzer to cwi. [applause] mr. carmichael: harold is the director of hunter college's roosevelt house public policy institute. you do not have an acronym for that, do you? before coming to the roosevelt house, harold previously served as senior vice president for public affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. the previous 10 years, he co-edited -- excuse me, cochaired the u.s. abraham lincoln bicentennial commission appointed by president clinton, and i should add, president bush awarded harold the national humanities medal in 2008. harold has authored or books? red or edited 52 that is w

>> i think i can squeeze between abraham baldwin and he's from georgia and he was the last guy to sign and he's gesturing toward the constitution itself and now i'm between george washington and james madison. james madison is the tallest man in the room, and at 6'2" he's towering over everyone else and he commanding in every respect. and james madison, over whom i am absolutely towering is -- i think he was 5'4" and is the smallest guy in the room and so thin boned, he had epilepsy. he had challenges in health and there is a biography by lynn chain whoa came to the constitution hall who talked about his illness and physical frailty shape many of his ideas and created this great man, the father of the constitution if there was a single father who was so devoted to moderation and pragmatism and compromise and really the great genius of the constitution was the balancing and mixing of interesting and the challenge for the men in this room was how to balance interests that seemed at times irreconcilable and the biggest difference was over the power of the large states versus the small sta

abraham lincoln met with his what is today called bedroom.oln on in his era it was his office. richard nixon rarely worked in office, he worked across the street in executive office building. used more by e is some presidents, less by others, of course, andy, what the gentleman was talking power and symbolism of the office, nothing like it in the world and when you step oval, it's smaller than it looks on t.v., about 700 or so, not the biggest room, but you are ju -- you near awe and awe-inspiring feeling to be in that room. i'm curious to see what it will e like when they are done with this project. host: for more stories on the this roof" is the name of paul brandos book, presidency and the white house. your time, thanks for joining us via skype. you.t: thank host: up next, we're going to end our program back with the program we began the with, president trump's remarks on the charlottesville violence if you weekend, asking thought they were enough. start calling in, republicans, independents, lines for all three. call in now, we'll be right back. >> every month bookt t.v. fe

abraham lincoln, you've heard the famous statement, abraham lincoln said he's a mere clerk. >> he also said, of course, i have to like him because if i don't like him nobody will. lincoln is very frustrated by halleck for this reason. he brings halleck onboard because lincoln is smart enough to know that he doesn't know a whole lot about military stuff. of course, he knows a lot more than he thinks and by the end of the war he's teaching his general, but at this particular time lincoln wants somebody learned in the skill in the military skills to be at his side to help him organize the union war effort. i want you to tell me what i should do and halleck won't do it. he just simply takes the position -- in fact, he almost resigns. he offers to resign. if you make me tell you what i think ought to be done, i'll resign and lincoln throws up his hand, and i think lincoln may be understood that this is it. this is the best i've got. this guy knows his stuff. maybe i can teach him. maybe i can work him in to say some things, but lincoln is not a great supporter -- well, he's a supporter of h

douglas are completely indispensable figures for the creation of abraham lincoln. there's no lincoln without these two people in illinois. mary doesn't play quite the same role as she did earlier in the first volume, but she plays a very important role here, and it's a little known incident in which lincoln runs for the senate in 1855, not 1858 against douglas. he runs for the senate in 1855. she pushes him to run. he was slated to run for the state legislature, and she -- he's elected again, and she -- he's been a congressman in the legislature, she thinks -- the senate seat opens up, and she thinks this is completely beneath him. his ambition is a little engine that knew no rest, and mary's was real are knew no rest, and lincoln's friend describe a period of two days of yelling and shouting and lincoln hanging his head and at the end of which he drops his being elected to the state legislature and announces for the senate because his wife says, you're a senator. and it's really important the way he loses for the creation of the republican party, because -- brief

his book is a look at the political life of abraham lincoln. .. with that, i'm going to throw it over to our interviewer, elizabeth taylor, the literary editor at large for the "chicago tribune." [applause] >> hi. thank you. are these mics on? great. you can hear me? thank you so much for coming out. this is a wonderful turnout for a wonderful book, and we're delighted to be here. i've actually -- in this chair, year ago, talking about the first volume of sidney blumenthal's four -- to be four volumes on lincoln, and i'm really excite it -- excited about this one. i loved that one and this is even norwich. "wrestling with the angel. ". so, like to set the stage. begins in march 1849. lincoln returns to springfield to practice law. 1849. and then 1856, no-nothing party, nominates bill moore for president, national convention for the republican party. we have that blackdrop. what's the title about? >> host: "wrestling with his angel" is a title i took from the story of jacob in the bible in the bible, jacob wrestles through a long night, possible my