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Someone once said that more books have been written about Abraham Lincoln than any other person in history save Jesus and Shakespeare. Indeed, it is impossible to understand the Civil War without getting to know the complex figure of the 16th president. More than any other biographer, Stephen B. Oates brings the plain-talking man from Illinois to life as a canny politician, a doting husband, and a determined wartime leader. Oates has an appealing appreciation for Lincoln's majestic control of the English language, his raw humor, and his undeniable heroism. The final pages, covering Lincoln's death and his legacy, are graceful and moving.


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A masterful biography of Lincoln that follows his 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 tumultuous periods.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Makes Lincoln Human, July 31, 2001
By David E. Levine (Peekskill , NY USA) - See all my reviews
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I have read (and earlier reviewed) David Herbert Donald's biography of Lincoln and I found it to be more comprehensive than this book. But, then again, Donald's biography is well over 800 pages whereas this one is a mere 440 or so. With more brevity, Oates, nonetheless does a great job and he humanizes Lincoln as well as does Donald.

There are some shortcomings, however. For example, Oates does not delve very deeply into Lincoln's strong antipathy towards his father, nor does he go into great depth as to his strong love of his stepmother. Likewise, he does not recognize Licoln's first love for what it was, as does Donald. Rather, he treats Ann Rutledge merely as a close friend.

Both Donald and Oates do a good job in showing Lincoln to be a master politician but, with more pages, Donald is able to more fully illustrate this. But, many people don't have the patience to read a legnthy tome. Although I think that Donald's biography is the single best one of Lincoln, for a work half of that legnth, this fine biography is five stars.

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent biography of an incredibly complex man., January 15, 2004
By Roger J. Buffington (Huntington Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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"With Malice Towards None" is a very creditable work and a fine attempt to explain the author's view of Abraham Lincoln. Oates views Lincoln as a genuinely good man, highly ambitious, self-made, and first and foremost: a politician. Like all politicians who are heads of state, Lincoln had to grapple with the issues of his day. In his day, however, the issues were unusually intractable, difficult, and complex, such that the nation was unable to solve them through established institutions. It took an actual Civil War to decide whether slavery in America must go, whether America is first and foremost a union of united States, or whether it was a Union of essentially sovereign single states. These were and are great issues, and the greatness of Lincoln is that he stood in the center of these issues, spent his entire presidency grappling with them, and ultimately, it was his unswerving leadership, not perfect but great, that ultimately led America to resolution of these issues.

Oates shows us that Lincoln was a politician. He wheedled, compromised, and was carried by great events as often as he shaped them. This does nothing to take away from the man who, along with Washington, ranks as doubtless one of our two greatest presidents. While opposing slavery, Lincoln was ready to compromise with it, at least sometimes to some extent. Oates does a good job of explaining this in a non-revisionist way that shows respect to Lincoln and to history.

Oates' writing is clear, and his research thorough. This is not a perfect book in that it is not a complete view of Lincoln. No 400 or so page book about this complicated man could achieve that. On the other hand, Oates portrays Lincoln brilliantly, and with insight, as a gifted leader and politician in an incredibly difficult time.

I would have enjoyed more discussion of some of Lincoln's more extreme actions, his bending (some would say breaking) of the Constitution, and the extremes to which he went to achieve ultimate military victory for the North. Oates does touch on this, but more would have been welcome.

An excellent book about a difficult and complex subject. Recommended.

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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the 3 Best 1 Volume Biographies About Lincoln, March 20, 2004
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I have been studying Abraham Lincoln for nearly 40 years. Many Lincoln scholars consider WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE by Stephen B. Oates one of three BEST one-volume biographies of Abraham Lincoln ever written to date. The other two are LINCOLN by David Herbert Donald and ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A BIOGRAPHY by Benjamin P. Thomas.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Crisp and succint; follows the maxim "keep it simple"
My view towards this biography evolved over the years. At one point, I thought this volume did not provide enough details of Lincoln's life. Read more
Published 1 month ago by JC

4.0 out of 5 stars Absorbing
The Civil War was about slavery. Slavery and both the North's and the South's reaction to it was the crux of a malignant disagreement over economics and values that stretched back... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Michael E. Fitzgerald

1.0 out of 5 stars The myth malice toward none perpetuated
Lincoln is hailed by the majority power as a god of sorts. For generations, writers like Oates and the majority's media that governs men like him, force upon students and citizens... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Beau

4.0 out of 5 stars The man behind the statue

WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE is not a great book, but it is a good one; a solid, often entertaining biography of a man whose life and death quite literally shape American... Read more
Published 12 months ago by M. G Watson

5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant biography
This reviewer is fortunate to be a former student of Stephen B. Oates, both in his History of the American Civil War and in his seminar on biography writing. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Stephen V. Masse

1.0 out of 5 stars Another Whitewash of the 16th President.
Will anyone dare to write an accurate assessment of the 16th President or are the myths that surround him just to strong to penetrate? Read more
Published 22 months ago by A. Lowe

4.0 out of 5 stars A luxurious reading experience
This book generated controversy among Lincoln scholars. The general reading public, however, will probably enjoy both the book's prose and its story. Read more
Published on September 13, 2007 by Richard Lawrence Miller, Linco...

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Lincoln Biography
Consider the great biographies of Lincoln: Nicolay and Hay,[10 volumes] his secretaries, Carl Sandburg's Abraham Licoln [6 volumes], Benjamin's single volume and all those that... Read more
Published on August 23, 2007 by Barrie W. Bracken

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Biographies I have read
Professor Oates in my opinion did an outstanding job in the biography he did on Lincoln. While it is not as verbose as Donald's, it was well written and to be honest I could not... Read more
Published on February 6, 2007 by D. Coffman

4.0 out of 5 stars A great biography of Abraham Lincoln
In this work, Oates succeeds in illuminating the political and personal life of Abraham Lincoln. For readers interested in the psychological and social nature of the man, this may... Read more
Published on January 22, 2007 by Skip Roads

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