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The Radical and the Republican
James Oakes
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Description for The Radical and the Republican
Paperback. "A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing."-Jean Baker Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 270.
“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 America—their 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 of the Civil War, and in the fate of the ... Read more
“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 America—their 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 of the Civil War, and in the fate of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393330656
SKU
V9780393330656
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About James Oakes
James Oakes is one of our foremost Civil War historians and a two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize for his works on the politics of abolition. He teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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