The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (James Oakes - BH) wax

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (James Oakes - BH) waxby James Oakes "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 Lincolns 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

1863–1865

After the State of Pennsylvania purchased the 17 acres

Lincoln’s problem: he knew it was time for slavery to go

Although the book presents the most detailed and richly drawn portrait ever written of Sarah Hemings

the opposing armies grappled for position wondering what would come next

and cared for the wounded

North Carolina

and was present at the surrender at Appomattox

Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln

While the population was diverse

Texas troops fought in almost every major sector of the sprawling Chickamauga battlefield

Letters to Lizzie presents a complex portrait of a young woman during wartime as well as the concerns of soldiers