| With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln Contributor(s): Oates, Stephen B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060924713 ISBN-13: 9780060924713 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2011 Annotation: This masterful and moving biography follows Lincoln's bitter struggle with poverty, his self-made success in business and law, his early disappointing political career, and his leadership as President during one of America's most turbulent periods. 48 halftone illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 94231324 |
| Physical Information: 1.49" H x 5.41" W x 7.96" (1.01 lbs) 544 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "The standard one-volume biography of Lincoln." --Washington Post "Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written." --David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book Review The 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Oates, Stephen B.: - Stephen B. Oates is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His books include Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln. Oates has been awarded numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and Nevins-Freeman Award of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago for lifetime achievement in the field of Civil War studies. |