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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... political machine and eventually became its " generalissimo . " On the county level , though , party lines still were blurred . Since 1834 was not a Presidential election year , personal magnetism and tactical maneuver- ing were apt to ...
The Life of Abraham Lincoln Stephen B. Oates. all his political sentiments flowed from that sacred document . In the opening day of the special session , the Democrats held the first political convention in Illinois . Led by pugnacious ...
... politics : he served as state's attorney general and a state legislator , and in 1837 became register of the Springfield Land Office . In all the political battles down in Vandalia , Douglas had become a man of the political arena , an ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
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