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

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

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