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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... father's identity remains a mystery . As a consequence , a controversy has long raged over Nancy's legitimacy , with many authorities insisting that she was born out of wed- lock and others retorting that she was not . Since Nancy ...
... father , there was a perma- nent estrangement between them now . Dennis Hanks blamed it on Thomas , claiming that he thought Abraham was ruining himself with education and that he beat the youth for reading books . According to others ...
... father the twenty - five dollars he'd earned for his labors . Sometime that summer or winter Lincoln began hanging around the log courthouses in Rockport and Boonville . A sort of legal buff , he watched transfixed as young country ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
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