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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... northern section of the old Louisiana Purchase territory . With the line overturned , slavery could now spread into a vast northern frontier once reserved as a free - soil domain . And the man most responsible for this infamous ...
... northern Virginia . According to the Chicago Press & Tribune , a band of Northern abolitionists - most of them young , five of them black - had tried to capture the remote mountain town , seize the federal arsenal there , and ignite a ...
... Northern Republican party . An Ohio Democratic paper , reflecting conservative Northern opinion , blamed the raid not on Brown , " for he is mad , " but on Black Republicans who " induced him thus to resort to arms to carry out their ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
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