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Title:

GIANTS
THE PARALLEL LIVES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN

By:

John Stauffer

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0446698989

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9780446698986

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Publisher:

LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY

Pub. date:

5 November, 2009

Pages:

448

Description:

A dual biography of two of the greatest self-made men of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

Synopsis:

They were the self-made men of their time. Lincoln was born dirt poor, had less than 1 year of formal schooling and became the nation's greatest President. Douglass spent his first 20 years as a slave, had no formal schooling, couldn't read or write and became 1 of America's greatest writers and activists. At a time when most whites would not let a black man cross their threshold, Lincoln met Douglass 3 times at the White House and invited him to tea at the Soldier's Home. Their friendship was based on usefulness: Lincoln saw that he needed Douglass to help him destroy the Confederacy and preserve the Union; Douglass knew that Lincoln's shrewd sense of public opinion would serve his own goal of freeing the nation's blacks. Lincoln and Douglass moved beyond the traditional idea of character as fixed and based primarily on heredity and social status and embraced a self in a state of continual evolution. Award-winning historian John Stauffer describes the dramatic transformations in the lives of these giants during a major shift in cultural history, when men rejected the status quo and embraced new ideals of personal liberty.

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Illustrations, ports.

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Imprint:

Twelve

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Returnable

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