With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham LincolnThe definitive life of Abraham Lincoln, With Malice Toward None is historian Stephen B. Oates's acclaimed and enthralling portrait of America's greatest leader. Oates masterfully charts, with the pacing of a novel, Lincoln's rise from bitter poverty in America's midwestern frontier to become a self-made success in business, law, and regional politics. The second half of the book examines his legendary leadership on the national stage as president during one of the country's most tumultuous and bloody periods, the Civil War years, which concluded tragically with Lincoln's assassination. In this award-winning biography, Lincoln steps forward out of the shadow of myth as a recognizable, fully drawn American whose remarkable life continues to inspire and inform us today. |
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... Philip D. Swenson and Professor Leonard Rich- ards of the University of Massachusetts and to Professor Charles C. Alex- * The Art of Biography ( New York , 1967 ) , 28 . ander of Ohio University , all of whom read the xvi Preface.
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... York draft riot was a macabre episode , a three - day orgy of violence which sickened Lincoln to read about . It ... York's Negro area , where they set an orphanage afire , hung Negroes from lampposts and incinerated them , clubbed and ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
Revolt Against the Fathers | 109 |
Reference Notes | 437 |
Copyright | |
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