Showing The radical and the Republican : Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the triumph of antislavery politics by James Oakes

Paperback. Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 352 in Publisher: WW Norton & Co. My husband considered you a dear friend of Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln s assassination The frontier is lawyer and the former slave . the cautious politician and the fiery reformer. the President and the most famous black man in America their lives traced different paths that finally met in the bloody landscape of secession. Civil War. and emancipation. Opponents at first. they gradually became allies. each influenced by and attracted to the other. Their three meetings in the White House signaled a profound shift in the direction of the Civil War. and in the fate of the United States.James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history. inging two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery. race. and equality in Civil War America.