Stephen B. Oates (Author of With Malice Toward None)

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Stephen B. Oates

Born

in Pampa, Texas, The United States

January 05, 1936

Died

August 20, 2021

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, History

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An expert on 18th century U.S. history, Stephen B. Oates was professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he taught from 1969 until his retirement in 1997. Oates received his BA (1958), MA (1960), and Ph.D. (1969) from the University of Texas.

Oates wrote 16 books during his career, including biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, and John Brown, and an account of Nat Turner's slave rebellion. His Portrait of America, a compilation of essays about United States history, is widely used in advanced high school and undergraduate university American history courses. His two "Voices of the Storm" books are compilations of monologues of key individuals in events leading up to and during the ...more

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	With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln 4.27 avg rating — 8,562 ratings — published 1977 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr. 4.43 avg rating — 1,055 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion 3.79 avg rating — 640 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown 4.18 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 1970 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths 3.86 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 1984 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War 3.89 avg rating — 255 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861 4.18 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1997 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	William Faulkner: The Man and the Artist: A Biography 3.89 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865 4.06 avg rating — 68 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Portrait of America 1 3.67 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1900 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Screaming at misguided people, Lincoln believed, was not the way to correct their wrongs. As he put it later, you won people to your side through 鈥減ersuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion,鈥� making friends with them, appealing to their reason, gently telling them that they were only hurting themselves by their follies. For it was 鈥渁n old true maxim,鈥� Lincoln contended, 鈥渢hat a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.鈥� But if you assailed, damned, and vilified the misled, they would shut you off and lash back.”
― Stephen B. Oates, With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln

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“The legitimate object of government,鈥� he later asserted, 鈥渋s 鈥榯o do for the people what needs to be done, but which they can not, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves.”
― Stephen B. Oates, With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln

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“its been my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.”
― Stephen B. Oates, With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln

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