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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... Douglas and run rival candidates against Douglas's people . If the Buchaneers did that all over the state , Lincoln said , then " this thing is settled - the battle is fought . " Yet Lincoln hotly denied that the Republicans had formed ...
... Douglas's inter- rogatories , Lincoln declared that yes , he was against the admission of addi- tional slave states . No , he was not for repealing the fugitive slave law ( even though he detested slave - catching ) . And no , he was ...
... Douglas , 641-644 . The debates : ibid . , 662-665 ; Lincoln , CW , II , 522 , 527n , 528-530 , 531 ; Douglas to Lincoln , July 24 , 1858 , RTL Coll .; Fehrenbacher , Prelude to Greatness , 99-112 . Pages 152-160 Lincoln on Douglas's ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
Copyright | |
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