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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... fight it out with cavalry broadswords . This was so absurdly grotesque that Lincoln couldn't have been entirely serious . As another biographer has suggested , Lincoln was no doubt trying to show his opponent how ridiculous their ...
... fight against Virginia or the South , could not " raise my hand against my relatives , my children , my home . " After that Lee had a talk with old Scott , also a Virginian , who lectured the colonel about his duty and patriotism . Then ...
... fight to free negroes . " Well , Lincoln said , “ some of them seem willing to fight for you ; but no matter . Fight you , then , exclusively to save the Union . I issued the proclamation on purpose to aid you in saving the Union ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
Copyright | |
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