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With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln

"Full, fair, and accurate. . . . Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written." —Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book Review

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From preeminent Civil War historian Stephen B. Oates comes the book the Washington Post hails as "the standard one-volume biography of Lincoln." Oates' With Malice Toward None is recognized as the seminal biography of the Sixteenth President, by one of America's most prominent historians.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 544 pages

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