Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman German "Entirely compelling

"Entirely compelling

I read this book and went straight out and bought myself a $250 Specialized bicycle and started my first bicycle tour

The course that Athens followed can be to us not only a record of distant and forgotten events

Some visits are heart-wrenchingly difficult

a more liberal Burke emerges from this book

Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman German "Entirely compellingFrom the author of Lincoln: A Photobiography, comes a clear sighted, carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they intersected at a critical moment in U. S. history. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were both self taught, both great readers and believers in the importance of literacy, both men born poor who by their own efforts reached positions of power and prominence Lincoln as president of the United States and