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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... Congress ) Montgomery Blair ( National Archives ) Senator Charles Sumner ( Massachusetts Historical Society ) Benjamin F. Wade ( Library of Congress ) Zachariah Chandler ( Library of Congress ) John Charles Frémont ( National Archives ) ...
... Congress sent him a bill which forbade Union officers to return fugitive slaves to the Confederacy . Lincoln signed it . The Republican Congress sent him a bill which abolished slavery in Washington , D.C. , compensated the owners , and ...
... Congress ; Nicolay and Hay , Lincoln , III , 359-360 ; Trefousse , Radical Republicans , 140 ; J. W. Shafer to Washburne , January 29 , 1861 , Washburne Papers , Library of Congress ; Lincoln quotation ( “ teased to insanity ” ) in ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
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