The Lincoln Lectures - Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

This work stands apart from traditional biographies as author John Stauffer discusses how these two men made themselves, and how in many ways they defined each other and their times through use of language, self-education, hard work, compromise, persuasion, and an intuitive genius for politicking.
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