With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln

In this full-scale biography, Oates rescues Lincoln from the mists of legend, and shows that he was neither a superhuman prairie democrat nor a saintly Great Emancipator. Oates covers all aspects of Lincoln's life and remarkable career, and brings alive a complex richly human, self-made man who was proud of his professional achievements. He captures Lincoln's failures and successes, skepticism, anxieties, self-doubts, and contradictions, as well as his fascination with madness, obsession with death, the recurring bouts of melancholy, and his talent for literary expression. Oates focuses on how Lincoln struggled with himself and his countrymen over the moral contradiction of slavery in a nation based on the Declaration of Independence. (For sale in India at Rs.96.00).