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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... looked up to him . Among the better sort , Lincoln now had a reputation as a ruffian , though they conceded that he was a ruffian with a difference , since he was honest , literate , and sober . Yes , to everyone's astonishment , the ...
... looked glumly on , Congressmen shouted and gestured at one another , and two of them even got into a fistfight . Other politicians showed up in the House and the Senate too drunk to fight or shout . Senator Sam Houston of Texas , who ...
... looked very good now- Lincoln was making steady gains in Pennsylvania and running well ahead in Indiana and most other crucial states . Around midnight Major Eckert of the telegraph office brought supper into the room , and Lincoln ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
Copyright | |
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