The president and the freedom fighter : Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and their battle to save America's soul / Brian Kilmeade.
"In The President and the Freedom Fighter, Brian Kilmeade tells the little-known story of how two American heroes moved from strong disagreement to friendship, and in the process changed the entire course of history. Abraham Lincoln was White, born impoverished on a frontier farm. Frederick Douglass was Black, a child of slavery who had risked his life escaping to freedom in the North. Neither man had a formal education, and neither had had an easy path to influence. No one would have expected them to become friends--or to transform the country. But Lincoln and Douglass believed in their nation's greatness. They were determined to make the grand democratic experiment live up to its ideals. Lincoln's problem: he knew it was time for slavery to go, but how fast could the country change without being torn apart? And would it be possible to get rid of slavery while keeping America's Constitution intact? Douglass said no, that the Constitution was irredeemably corrupted by slavery--and he wanted Lincoln to move quickly. Sharing little more than the conviction that slavery was wrong, the two men's paths eventually converged. Over the course of the Civil War, they'd endure bloodthirsty mobs, feverish conspiracies, devastating losses on the battlefield, and a growing firestorm of unrest that would culminate on the fields of Gettysburg."--Amazon.com.
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- ISBN: 9780593460238
- ISBN: 0593460235
- Physical Description: xiii, 411 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [343] - 377) and index. |
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Genre: | Large type books. Biographies. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Albright Memorial Library | LARGE TYPE 973.7092 KILMEAD (Text) | 50686016120128 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked Out | 05/08/2024 |
Altoona Area Public Library | LP 973.70922 KIL (Text) | 33240005345932 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
Dillsburg Area Public Library | Adults 973.7 KIL Large Print (Text) | 34001001406162 | Adult Area | Available | - |
New Oxford Library | LP 973.7092 KILMEADE (Text) | 35740635793631 | Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
Tamaqua Public Library | LT LT 973.7 KI (Text) | 30TPL001893765 | Large Type | Available | - |
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