With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham LincolnA masterful biography of Lincoln that follows his bitter struggle with poverty, his self-made success in business and law, his early disappointing political career, and his leadership as President during one of America's most tumultuous periods. |
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By 1837 , various abolitionist societies were at work in the North , trying to convert people through nonviolent moral suasion , and Southerners were responding with a fusillade of murderous threats . North Carolina and Georgia each put ...
By 1837 , various abolitionist societies were at work in the North , trying to convert people through nonviolent moral suasion , and Southerners were responding with a fusillade of murderous threats . North Carolina and Georgia each put ...
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But by fomenting civil war they had done what no public feeling and no political party in the North could ever have done — they had placed slavery on the " path of destruction . " It was a delicious irony . As the evening passed and the ...
But by fomenting civil war they had done what no public feeling and no political party in the North could ever have done — they had placed slavery on the " path of destruction . " It was a delicious irony . As the evening passed and the ...
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In the North , agents representing state and national governments rode through Negro communities mustering volunteers for Lincoln's armies . And those who listed did so to prove that blacks were not docile and moronic Sambos as most ...
In the North , agents representing state and national governments rode through Negro communities mustering volunteers for Lincoln's armies . And those who listed did so to prove that blacks were not docile and moronic Sambos as most ...
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| Title | With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln |
| Author | Stephen B. Oates |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1977 |
| ISBN | 0060132833, 9780060132835 |
| Length | 492 pages |
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