The Lincoln Miracle

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The Lincoln Miracle is the natural complement to Achorn's Every Drop of Blood, which chronicles Lincoln's 1865 second inaugural address. That was the culmination of Lincoln's presidency, The Lincoln Miracle is how, against all odds, it began.Every Drop of Blood was praised in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and the Guardian, among many outlets, and was named a best book of the year by the Economist. It has sold more than 20, 000 copies in all formats, with 15, 000 in hardcover alone.We have terrific blurbs in hand from Pulitzer Prize winner Gordon Wood and Lincoln biographer Michael Burlingame. We expect blurbs from Ted Widmer, winner of the 2020 Lincoln Book Award, and other notables. Gordon Wood writes: ?Anyone interested in the intricacies and ironies and the deal-making and horse-trading of American politics will love this book.?There is constant interest in Lincoln and in books about our 16th president. The Lincoln Miracle, published in February, the month of Lincoln's birth, will lead the pack in 2023. Edward Achorn is now an accepted Lincoln expert, and this book will be a strong candidate for the Lincoln Book Award.As he did with Every Drop of Blood, in The Lincoln Miracle Achorn fluidly weaves quotations from letters, diaries, and other accounts into his own elegant narrative, pulling readers close to the scenes he describes. He has found quotations and references that Michael Burlingame says he has never seen, giving The Lincoln Miracle ever more originality.This is a character-driven story. From his original research, Achorn offers previously unseen stories about Lincoln, including the young girl who convinced him to grow a beard, and brilliant portraits of key figures during the convention, among them New York senator and presumptive favorite William Seward and his primary advocate, political operative Thurlow Weed, Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, who recently broke with Seward and worked to block his nomination, Judge David Davis, Lincoln's essential surrogate without whom his nomination would not have happened.Whereas Washington, D.C., was a character in Every Drop of Blood, Chicago comes alive in The Lincoln Miracle in all its raucous and aspiring glory. Barely thirty years old, it had already topped 100, 000 in population and become the hub for train travel and commercial traffic between east and west. If the convention had been held anywhere else, Lincoln would not have been nominated, as a native son, he had a chance.The backroom politicking and political infighting and grudge-holding Achorn colorfully relates makes even today's polarized political environment seem tame by comparison.Jon Meacham's biography of Lincoln, And There Was Light, will be published by Random House in October 2022, so interest in Lincoln will be high when we publish The Lincoln Miracle four months later.