With Malice toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln - Softcover

Oates, Stephen B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060924713 ISBN 13: 9780060924713

Publisher: HarperPerennial, 2011

Synopsis

A masterful biography of Lincoln that follows his 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 tumultuous periods."Here, in these pages, he is still alive....Not the god of the Lincoln Memorial, but a man struggling to remain himself under terrible burdens." "--Los Angeles Times"

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Review:

"A superb biography"--Chicago Tribune

"Hailed as the best one-volume biography of Lincoln"--Boston Globe

"The standard one-volume biography of Lincoln"--Washington Post

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperPerennial
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0060924713
• ISBN 13: 9780060924713
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512