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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... territories but here in Washington as well . When Northern free - soilers resolved to prohibit slavery in New Mexico and California , proslavery South- erners protested in a storm of speeches and counterresolutions . Gaunt and icy ...
... territories . So away with the line altogether . What Douglas wanted was a panacea that would silence the infernal ... territories . Accordingly , the bill created the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska , carved out of the north- ern ...
... territories . First Douglas tells us that the people of a territory can vote to keep slavery out . But when asked whether they can do this before statehood , the judge tells us this is a matter for the Supreme Court to decide . Then ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
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