With Malice Toward Noneby Stephen B. Oates | |
| Category: |
"U.S. History - Political" |
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| Pages: | 474 |
| Year of Publication: | 1977 |
| Date Added: | 12/14/1998 |
| Date Read: | 04/17/1987 |
| Notes: | Biography of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln in his bitter struggle to rise from poverty to self-made success in business and law; Lincoln, the politician, who survived crushing defeat and disappointment; Lincoln, the husband and father, who came to know both tender love and shattering loss; Lincoln, the President, who despised slavery yet hesitated to split the Union; Lincoln, the leader, who had to learn to manipulate men, command armies , and take responsibility for the fate of millions; Lincoln, the estraordinarily complex human being, at once witty and meloncholy, determined yet fatalistic, full of life yet obsessed with death, astutely pragmatic, yet staunchly idealistic. Here is Lincoln as he really was. Lincoln the man, not the myth. |
| My Rating: | 7 |