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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... York , " said Trumbull , " that settles it . " Through it all Lincoln registered no emotion ; only when he carried Springfield did he show excitement , uttering something between a crow and a cheer . At last came the news they had all ...
... York and James rivers , and then dash northwest into Richmond , thus outmaneu- vering the Confederate force on the Rappahannock . Lincoln was not impressed with the Peninsula operation . Yet he noted that all McClellan's corps ...
... York draft riot was a macabre episode , a three - day orgy of violence which sickened Lincoln to read about . It ... York's Negro area , where they set an orphanage afire , hung Negroes from lampposts and incinerated them , clubbed and ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
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