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The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
Contributor(s): Oakes, James (Author)
ISBN: 0393330656     ISBN-13: 9780393330656
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2008
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Annotation: "A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing."--Jean Baker
"My husband considered you a dear friend," Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln's assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America--their lives traced different paths that finally met in the bloody landscape of secession, Civil War, and emancipation. Opponents at first, they gradually became allies, each influenced by and attracted to the other. Their three meetings in the White House signaled a profound shift in the direction of the Civil War, and in the fate of the United States.
James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history, bringing two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Social Science | Slavery
- Political Science
Dewey: 973.711
Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.56" W x 8.22" (0.62 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Civil War
- Topical - Black History
 
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"My husband considered you a dear friend," Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln's assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America--their lives traced different paths that finally met in the bloody landscape of secession, Civil War, and emancipation. Opponents at first, they gradually became allies, each influenced by and attracted to the other. Their three meetings in the White House signaled a profound shift in the direction of the Civil War, and in the fate of the United States. James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history, bringing two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.

Contributor Bio(s): Oakes, James: - James Oakes is the author of several acclaimed books on slavery and the Civil War. His history of emancipation, Freedom National, won the Lincoln Prize and was longlisted for the National Book Award. He is Distinguished Professor of History and Graduate School Humanities Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY.