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

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

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

the opposing armies grappled for position wondering what would come next

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

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