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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... Democrats held the first political convention in Illinois . Led by pugnacious Stephen A. Douglas , the Democrats chose a uniform slate of candidates and drafted a platform that all Democrats were honor - bound to support or be read out ...
... Democrats refused to abandon their old parties , Illinois Republicans failed to establish a state party in 1854. Even so , the broad anti - Nebraska forces continued to swell , as more and more free- soil Democrats refused to let ...
... Democrats and supported the Bloomington call as well , bringing in a procession of other anti - Nebraska Democrats . In the last week of May , in the old tobacco - spattered courthouse in Dan- ville , Lincoln and Judge Davis spoke ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
Copyright | |
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