Giants : the parallel lives of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln
Summary
Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. In this dual biography, John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major shift in cultural history, when men rejected the status quo and embraced new ideals of personal... Full description
- Meeting the president (August 10, 1863)
- Privileged slave and poor white trash
- Fugitive orator and frontier politician
- Radical abolitionist and Republican
- Abolistionist warrior and war president
- Friends.