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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... party seemed doomed to extinction . By February , 1856 , he'd concluded that old party labels — including his own Whig label -severely impeded the mobilization of anti - Nebraska forces and that a new free - soil party was imperative ...
... party strategy . He emphatically opposed an anti - alien amendment adopted in Republican Massachusetts , asserting that the Ameri- can mission was to elevate men , not degrade them . And he counseled an Indiana party leader that ...
... party leaders and asking for the latest news . A new party was in the field now - the Constitutional Union party , consisting of Know - Nothings and die - hard Whigs . With John Bell of Tennes- see as their candidate , they ignored the ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
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