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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... Springfield , but because he believed in public works as a matter of deep conviction . And in any case , the Long ... Springfield was not so unpopular that it required a great deal of politicking to get it selected as the seat of ...
... Springfield was " rather a dull business after all , at least it is for me . " In many ways Springfield was still a crude frontier town : hogs rooted in the dirt streets , and stables and neglected privies gave off a pungent stench when ...
... Springfield's Whig circles as a gifted and eloquent speaker . By 1839 he was a member of the Whig " Junto " in Springfield , a powerful clique of young lawyers who were influential in the choice of Whig candi- dates all about the state ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
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