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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... thousand were dug in along the Potomac and thousands more were on the way . As though by a miracle , Washington was now transformed into an armed camp , with cavalry and caissons rumbling through the streets , barracks and hospitals ...
... thousand troops manned the forts and redoubts around Washington , rather than the forty thousand Lincoln expected and McClel- lan's own generals had called for . Stanton thought McClellan had arrogantly disobeyed the President's orders ...
... thousand other cemeteries across the land , had given their lives for a true and noble ideal for the liberation of the human spirit in a government by and for all the people . Back in Washington , Lincoln came down with what doctors ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
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