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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... Southern states enacted tough new slave codes and strengthened their patrol and militia systems to guard against another Nat Turner uprising . At the same time , Southerners searched about desper- ately for somebody to blame for Turner ...
... Southern Democrats , Frémont would emancipate the slaves and mongrelize the races . Southern papers claimed that slaves were rattling their chains across the South , because they knew that Frémont was their friend , knew that he wanted ...
... Southern - hater , a lunatic , a chimpanzee . Read what Southern papers say about you . Here comes Billy Herndon with the latest issues of the Charleston Mercury and other Southern journals . You are " a horrid looking " wretch , “ a ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
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