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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Stauffer, John, 1965- Giants. New York : Twelve, 2008 (OCoLC)653438755 |
| Named Person: | Frederick Douglass; Abraham Lincoln |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Stauffer |
| ISBN: | 9780446580090 9780446541220 0446580090 0446541222 9780446698986 0446698989 |
| OCLC Number: | 213599181 |
| Description: | xiv, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Meeting the president (August 10, 1863) -- Privileged slave and poor white trash -- Fugitive orator and frontier politician -- Radical abolitionist and Republican -- Abolitionist warrior and war president -- Friends. |
| Responsibility: | John Stauffer. |
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"John Stauffer's collective biography of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln stands apart from other biographies by focusing on how each man continually remade himself, with help from women, words, self-education, physical strength, and luck. In the process Stauffer gives us the texture and feel--a "thick description"--of the strange worlds that Douglass and Lincoln inhabited. The result is a path-breaking work that dissolves traditional conceptions of these two seminal figures (Lincoln the "redeemer" president, Douglass the assimilationist). He reveals how Douglass towered over Lincoln as a brilliant orator, writer, agitator, and public figure for most of his life. He shows us how words became potent weapons for both men. And he tells the poignant story of how these preeminent self-made men ultimately converged, despite their vastly different agendas and politics, and helped transform the nation."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University, author of The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century Read more...
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