With Malice toward None by Stephen B Oates

With Malice toward None by Stephen B Oates

"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 Review

The 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.

Oates is Emeritus Kendall Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the author of eighteen books, including Nebraska's The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865 and With Malice Toward None: A Life of President Lincoln. The Chicago Civil War Round Table awarded Oates the Nevins-Freeman Prize for lifetime excellence in the field of Civil War studies.