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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... Sumner hurried to the White House with disturbing correspondence from his English friends , who wrote that a collision seemed imminent . What did Sumner think ? Sumner thought a war with England would be a catastrophe and would all but ...
... Sumner to the White House and tried to make him see the light . But the senator continued to impugn Lincoln's entire approach to reconstruc- tion . Not only did he contend that Congress had sole responsibility over restoring the South ...
... Sumner and his colleagues would accept Lincoln's present Louisiana regime and Lincoln , in return , would approve for all other rebel states a projected bill enfranchising all citizens " without distinction of color . " Though Lincoln ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
Copyright | |
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