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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... hand , could grade their progress . Lincoln came to school with an old arithmetic under one arm , dressed in a raccoon cap and buckskin clothes , his pants so short they exposed six inches of his calves . In later years he scoffed at ...
... hand when the state convention met in wind - swept Decatur , assembling in a ramshackle tent structure like that being erected in Chicago for the national convention . His worries were groundless , though , as the Republican state ...
... hand for this glorious victory . At first , Lincoln said , he'd thought Grant might wait for Sherman to come up from ... hand and set out for downtown Richmond a couple of miles away . By now black people were flocking around him ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
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