Radical and the Republican Frederick Douglass Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Antislaver

Name: Radical and the Republican Frederick Douglass Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Antislaver
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ISBN: 9780393330656

ISBN-10: 0393330656

ISBN-13: 9780393330656

Edition: 2008

Authors: James Oakes

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"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 Americatheir 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…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.48" wide x 8.25" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

James Oakes is the author of several acclaimed books on slavery and the Civil War. His most recent book, Freedom National, won the Lincoln Prize and was a long-list selection for the National Book Award. He lives in New York City.