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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... Thomas clear a farm out of the timber , establish a carpenter's trade , make the name of Lincoln mean something in the neighborhood . It seemed to the boy that he was almost constantly handling his ax , or struggling behind a plow , or ...
... Thomas had an army in Tennessee and could take care of Hood . Lincoln , though , remained uneasy about all this- and his worries increased when Sherman cut off his communications and headed deep into Georgia . For several weeks Lincoln ...
... Thomas , Lincoln , 510 ; Lincoln , CW , VIII , 381-385 ; Crook , “ Lincoln's Last Day , " Harper's ( September , 1907 ) , 519 ; quotation ( “ work was done " ) in Porter , Campaign- ing with Grant , 450-452 ; Lincoln , CW , VIII , 385 ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
Copyright | |
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