The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

by Eric Foner

Book Overview

In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner begins with Lincoln's youth in Indiana and Illinois and follows the trajectory of his career across an increasingly tense and shifting political terrain from Illinois to Washington, D.C. Although "naturally anti-slavery" for as long as he can remember, Lincoln scrupulously holds to the position that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393066185
• ISBN13: 9780393066180
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.6"