With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln“The standard one-volume biography of Lincoln.” —Washington Post “Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written.” —David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book Review The definitive life of Abraham Lincoln, With Malice Toward None is historian Stephen B. Oates's acclaimed and enthralling portrait of America's greatest leader. 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. 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 this riveting work 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. |
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A Biography of Abraham Lincoln Stephen B. Oates. of Lincoln and Civil War scholarship and because it is directed at a general audience and not just at scholars, it does not contain the kind of copious, line-by-line footnoting associated ...
... Lincoln came to school with an old arithmetic under one arm, dressed in a raccoon cap and buckskin clothes, his ... wrote some himself, recording some playful lines in a homemade copybook: Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen he will be good ...
A Biography of Abraham Lincoln Stephen B. Oates. interdependence and national ... Lincoln made a meticulous study of the Sangamon, noting the currents and the ... wrote out, revised, and polished his first political platform and carried it ...
A Biography of Abraham Lincoln Stephen B. Oates. down he was afraid of marriage ... Lincoln blanched when he saw her, for he thought she'd grown stout and lost ... wrote Mary Owens a long letter by candlelight. He'd written her before, but ...
... wrote now. “I'll try you once more anyhow.” He confessed that he'd been ill and that this, along with “other things ... Lincoln flung himself into Whig party caucuses, trying to revive himself in hard work. In Whig strategy sessions, Lincoln ...