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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... believed in God , believed there was a Supreme Being who endowed people with individual destinies . And he had read the Bible and was a religious fatalist like his mother . Yet he had reservations . What , for instance , was he to make ...
... believed , was not the way to correct their wrongs . As he put it later , you won people to your side through " persuasion , kind , unassuming persuasion , " making friends with them , appealing to their reason , gently telling them ...
... believed that Negroes would make good Union troops . He even went so far as to assert that " the bare sight of fifty thousand armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi , would end the rebellion at once . " And so ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
Copyright | |
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