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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... popular sovereignty banners of " Judge Doug- las . " * In the course of his argument , Lincoln flayed away at popular sovereignty itself as a fraudulent , insidious , and potentially devastating device . For one thing , it reduced a ...
... popular sove- reignty as the only solution to slavery in the territories ... but whose interpretation of popular sovereignty ? As it happened , the doctrine con- tained a fatal ambiguity which left the Democrats in a sectional uproar ...
... popular sovereignty as " the miner and sapper " for the movement to national- ize slavery and the most pressing danger the Republicans faced . He dismissed Douglas's latest arguments about the founders and popular sovereignty as ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
Copyright | |
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