Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

John Stauffer

ISBN 10: 0446580090 / ISBN 13: 9780446580090

Edité par Twelve, 2008

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
• Éditeur: Twelve
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0446580090
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780446580090
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Near Fine++
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Lincoln Books

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Synopsis

They were the pre-eminent self-made men of their time. Abraham Lincoln was born dirt poor, had less than one year of formal schooling and became the nation's greatest President.
Frederick Douglass spent the first twenty years of his life as a slave, had no formal schooling - his masters forbade him to read or write - and became one of the nation's greatest writers and activists.
At a time when most whites would not let a black man cross their threshold, Lincoln met Douglass three times at the White House. Their friendship was based on usefulness: Lincoln recognised that he needed Douglass to help him destroy the Confederacy and preserve the Union; Douglass realised that Lincoln's shrewd sense of public opinion would serve his own goal of freeing the nation's blacks.

À propos de l?auteur

John Stauffer is Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. His first book, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (Harvard University Press, 2002), was the co-winner of the 2002 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institue; winner of the Avery Craven Book Prize from the OAH; and the Lincoln Prize runner-up. Other works include: Meteor of War: The John Brown Story (with Zoe Trodd, 2004); Frederick Douglass' My Bondage and My Freedom (editor, 2003).