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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... votes and Lyman Trumbull 5. Yet Trum- bull's supporters — all anti - Nebraska Democrats , led by Norman Judd of Chicago - declared that they would never vote for a Whig and refused to endorse Lincoln . When in subsequent ballots the vote ...
... vote came on January 31 , 1865 , with spectators filling the corridors and galleries of the Capitol and Lincoln awaiting the outcome in the White House . As the roll call proceeded , every Republican member of the House voted yes ...
... vote ( in fact , that very day Salmon Chase had complained to Lincoln about this , insisting that it was criminal to deny Southern Negroes the suf- frage and thus leave them in the political control of their former masters ) . Well ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
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