With Malice Toward None, Stephen B. Oates
With Malice Toward None, Stephen B. Oates
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With Malice Toward None
A Biography of Abraham Lincoln

Author: Stephen B. Oates

Narrator: T. Ryder Smith

Unabridged: 21 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/22/2021

Synopsis

“The standard one-volume biography of Lincoln.” —Washington Post“Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written.” —David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book ReviewThe definitive life of Abraham Lincoln, With Malice Toward None is historian Stephen B. Oates's acclaimed and enthralling portrait of America's greatest leader. 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.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 this riveting work 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.

About Stephen B. Oates

Stephen B. Oates (1936-2021) was a professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. His books include Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln. Oates has been awarded numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and Nevins-Freeman Award of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago for lifetime achievement in the field of Civil War studies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on February 12, 2025

With this fine 1977 biography, historian Stephen B. Oates makes a strong and helpful contribution to the crowded field of Lincoln studies. Relatively concise (for a Lincoln biography) at 436 pages, With Malice Toward None provides a well-reasoned and thoughtful look at the life of the greatest Ameri......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on April 05, 2022

For general readers daunted by the endless shelves of doorstop Lincoln biographies, Stephen B. Oates’ With Malice Towards None is indispensable. Written in 1977, Oates’ book provides a clear, concise (436 pages of text) overview of the Great Emancipator’s life from hardscrabble midwestern youth to s......more

Goodreads review by Steve on April 05, 2014

[URL not allowed] “With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln” is Stephen Oates’s 1977 classic biography of our sixteenth president. Oates is an author, historian and former professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of sixteen b......more

Goodreads review by Ricky on August 14, 2016

What a dude! It wasn't just that he did so much, but he stayed so calm while doing it. This is a must read!......more

Goodreads review by Doug on February 11, 2013

My favorite Lincoln biography. Take this with a grain of salt. You know how this works when you critically assess another reader's statements - what often comes out is that it is very likely the reader's only foray into said biographies. :> Not quite true for me, I recently finished "Lincoln and Whi......more

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