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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... Virginia, and finally out to Kentucky where Abraham—A.'s grandfather—had been killed by an Indian. Young Abraham had heard the tale of Grandfather's death over and over, since Thomas enjoyed describing it in the evenings around a fire ...
... Virginia. Yet in mood and appearance he resembled her more than he did his father. So he never knew much, perhaps never tried to know much, about his parents' ancestry, characterizing both as products “of undistinguished families ...
... Virginia, an explosion of black rage that shook the entire South to its foundations. Afterward the Southern states enacted tough new slave codes and strengthened their patrol and militia systems to guard against another Nat Turner ...
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