This masterful and moving biography follows Lincoln's bitter struggle with poverty, his self-made success in business and law, his early disappointing political career, and his leadership as President during one of America's most turbulent periods. 48 halftone illustrations.
"Full, fair, and accurate. . . . Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written." --Pulitzer Prize-winner David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book Review

From preeminent Civil War historian Stephen B. Oates comes the book the Washington Post hails as "the standard one-volume biography of Lincoln." Oates' With Malice Toward None is recognized as the seminal biography of the Sixteenth President, by one of America's most prominent historians.