Description: An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln's antislavery strategies.
Brief description: James Oakes is one of our foremost Civil War historians and a two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize for his works on the politics of abolition. He teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Review Quotes: With this superb book, Oakes opens the way for a thorough retelling of the nation's history from the American Revolution to the Civil War.--Sean Wilentz, author of No Property in Man