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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... reports , and Lincoln happily noted that many of Grant's men hailed from Illinois . Subsequent reports indicated that Grant's victories had cracked the Confederate line in Kentucky and forced the opposing rebel army , its flanks now ...
... reports are that Rosecrans ran away from the battlefield at Chickamauga - that he left his men and raced with two other commanders back to Chattanooga . Then he ordered General George Thomas , whose troops had held the Union left during ...
... reported that not a single senator favored Lincoln's re - election , not a single one . Who to replace him with ... reports that he was using his own department to promote himself , filling up Treasury posts with pro - Chase men who ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
Copyright | |
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