The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (James Oakes - BH) collectible John Pope’s Army of Virginia

John Pope’s Army of Virginia on June 26

Abraham Lincoln in Illinois in 1841

The human drama of their lives unfolds before the reader on battlefields such as Chickamauga and within the high pine stockades of Andersonville

Winner of the Merle Curti award

the siege of Petersburg

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (James Oakes - BH) collectible John Pope’s Army of Virginiaby James Oakes "A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.Jean Baker My husband considered you a dear friend, Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincolns assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in Americatheir lives traced different paths that