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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... slavery problem . His projected bill would emancipate all slave children in the District after January 1 , 1850 , and would compensate their owners . The bill , though , would have to be ratified by District voters before it could take ...
... slaves into most of the Western frontier from Mexico to Canada . As it turned out , the Kansas - Nebraska Act was a monumental fiasco which inflamed the slave controversy worse than ever . A storm of free - soil protest broke across the ...
... slave policy , Congressional Republicans also supported the so - called Crittenden - Johnson Resolutions , which declared that the sole purpose of the war was to restore the Union without overturning state institutions . While Sumner ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
Copyright | |
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