The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution (James Oakes - LP) holzer giving Lincoln strength to tackle

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The desperate struggle for mastery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley

Holzer uncovers Lincoln’s very modern manipulation of the media―from his promulgation of disinformation to the ways he variously withheld

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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution (James Oakes - LP) holzer giving Lincoln strength to tackleCrooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution by James Oakes An award winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincolns antislavery strategies. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakess brilliant history of Lincolns antislavery strategies reveals a striking