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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... crowd gathered on the bank to watch, the tallest flatboatman stood on the dam and tried to pry the water-laden boat over. A villager observed that he was dressed “very rough,” wearing blue-jean breeches, a buckeye-chip hat, and a cotton ...
... crowd and the little village on the bluff. The tall flatboatman returned some three months later and set about ingratiating himself with his new neighbors. Nothing much had happened on his second New Orleans journey; afterward he'd made ...
... crowd gathered on the bluff to watch, the two fighters stripped to their waists and approached one another on the riverbank below. They grabbed, grunted, wrenched, and struggled while the spectators cheered them on. When it seemed that ...
... , at six feet four, ranking as the longest of them all. Elsewhere, though, the Whigs suffered disastrous losses, as a Democrat whipped Stuart in his bid for Congress and Stephen Douglas led a crowd of cheering Democrats to power, winning.
A Biography of Abraham Lincoln Stephen B. Oates. Douglas led a crowd of cheering Democrats to power, winning undisputed control of the legislature. And in the Presidential contest in November, Van Buren carried Illinois and the nation at ...