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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... Negroes into the North . To control Northern " free " blacks , most Yankee states outside of Massachusetts had enacted " black laws " -prototypes of the Jim Crow laws of later years— which arbitrarily relegated Negroes to the bottom of ...
... Negroes . Who is asking you to give up your right to own slaves ? Lincoln retorted . " Very certainly I am not , " because slavery is your own matter and enjoys constitutional guarantees I have to acknowledge . But " I confess I hate to ...
... Negroes absolutely clear , so that the issue would be settled once and for all ( and whites in crucial central Illinois would know where he really stood ) . He was not and never had been in favor of Negro social and political equality ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
Copyright | |
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