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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... once considered colonization ( in the aftermath of Nat Turner ) , but had rejected it as far too costly and complicated ever to carry out . And neither they nor their fellow Southerners were about to emancipate their blacks and leave ...
... once the conspirators achieved their ends , once they nationalized slavery and overthrew the Declaration of Independence , America would become a despotism based on class rule and human servitude . The Northern free - labor system would ...
... once more the Lincoln of the Eighth Circuit , " Hay said , " the cheeriest of talkers , the riskiest of story tellers . " When he reached his punch line , observed one visitor , Lincoln " wrinkled up his nose " and " showing all his ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
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