With Malice Toward None Author:Stephen B. Oates Here is Lincoln in his bitter struggle to rise from poverty to self-made success in business and law; Lincoln the politician, who survived crushing defeat and disappointment; Lincoln, the husband the father, who came to know both tender love and shattering loss; Lincoln, the President who despised slavery yet hesitated to split the Union; Lincol... more »n, the leader, who had to learn to manipulate men, command armies, and take responsibility for the fates of millions; Lincoln, the extraordinarily complex human being, at once witty and melancholy, determined yet fatalistic, full of life yet obsessed with death, astutely pragmatic yet staunchly idealistic. Here is Lincoln as he really was--and as we now come to know him for the first time. Lincoln--the man, not the myth.« less