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Stephen B. Oates
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award and the Christopher Award, this examination of the life of Martin Luther King Jr portrays a man and his dream that…
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The development and activities of a hitherto unpublicized segment of the Confederate cavalry.
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The true story behind the … motion picture The birth of a nation –Cover.
Biographer and historian Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of thirteen principal players in the drama, from…
Drawing on archival material, Oates renders Clara Barton’s wartime experience as one no else can do. Though Barton’s personal exploits as a nurse have been obscured by the legacy of…
John Brown’s raid on a federal armory was the spark that ignited the long-simmering fuse of the American Civil War. This book is simply the best chronicling of the life…
A biography of Lincoln that follows his bitter struggle with poverty, his self-made success in business and law, his early disappointing political career, and his leadership as President during one…
Discerns the historical truth from the mythical legend that surrounds Lincoln in this portrait of America’s 16th president. Stephen Oates is the author of Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life…
The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr. –Henry Steele Commanger, Philadelphia Inquirer
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Builds on the great themes and follows many of the important figures who were introduced in The Approaching Fury. Stephen B. Oates’s riveting narrative brings to life the complex and…
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Drawing on interviews with those who knew King, previously unutilized material at…
When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet…
A stunning biography of Clara Barton-a woman who determined to serve her country during the Civil War-from acclaimed author Stephen B. Oates.
The standard one-volume biography of Lincoln. –Washington Post
Certainly the most objective biography of Lincoln ever written. –David Herbert Donald, New York Times Book Review
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John Salmon Ford
The memoirs of a man who participlated in virtually every major event in Texas history from 1836 to 1896.
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