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Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president, but he wasn't the first Republican presidential candidate. That honor belongs to the subject of John Bicknell';s biography, Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856.

In a 10-minute conversation with The Bookmonger, Bicknell describes how Fremont turned his fame as an explorer into a political opportunity, why he would have made a better president than the victorious James Buchanan, and whether Lincoln owed his triumph in 1860 to Fremont's defeat four years earlier.

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