With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham LincolnA masterful biography of Lincoln that follows his bitter struggle with poverty, his self-made success in business and law, his early disappointing political career, and his leadership as President during one of America's most tumultuous periods. |
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His army would sail down to Chesapeake Bay , land at the sandy peninsula between the York and James rivers , and then dash northwest into Richmond , thus outmaneuvering the Confederate force on the Rappahannock .
His army would sail down to Chesapeake Bay , land at the sandy peninsula between the York and James rivers , and then dash northwest into Richmond , thus outmaneuvering the Confederate force on the Rappahannock .
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The New York draft riot was a macabre episode , a three - day orgy of violence which sickened Lincoln to read about . ... Then in an explosion of racial fury , rioting whites stormed into New York's Negro area , where they set an ...
The New York draft riot was a macabre episode , a three - day orgy of violence which sickened Lincoln to read about . ... Then in an explosion of racial fury , rioting whites stormed into New York's Negro area , where they set an ...
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The Assassination of the President and the Trial of the Conspirators ( Cincinnati , 1865 ) ; Keene's cry to the audience in the New York Herald , April 17 , 186s ; Ralph Borreson , When Lincoln Died ( N.Y. , 1965 ) , 15-31 , containing ...
The Assassination of the President and the Trial of the Conspirators ( Cincinnati , 1865 ) ; Keene's cry to the audience in the New York Herald , April 17 , 186s ; Ralph Borreson , When Lincoln Died ( N.Y. , 1965 ) , 15-31 , containing ...
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User Review - wcpweaver - LibraryThingI had originally decided not to read a Lincoln bio since Lincoln is one president that I know something about but the Fillmore and Buchanan bios gave such a "peculiar" perspective towards Lincoln ... Read full review
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| Title | With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln |
| Author | Stephen B. Oates |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1977 |
| ISBN | 0060132833, 9780060132835 |
| Length | 492 pages |
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