Biography - Oates, Stephen B(aery) (1936-): An article ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 13 Publication Date: 2002-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Masterful balanced biography: Stephen Oates writes a masterful biography of one of the pivotal figures of the twentieth century. Today we view Martin Luther King Jr. as a saint, and a model of what the human spirit can achieve. In his day, he was viewed [... more]
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Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War
Educational and Entertaining to read. A must have book!: Mr. Oates has done it again. You will know Clara Barton ambitions, downfalls, her emotions as well as her eager drive and personal duty to serve those who suffered so much during the Civil War [... more]
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With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Amazon.com Review: Someone once said that more books have been written about Abraham Lincoln than any other person in history save Jesus and Shakespeare. Indeed, it is impossible to understand the Civil War without getting to know the complex figure of [... more]
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Abraham Lincoln: Man Behind the Myths, The
Separating mythos from the mortal: We invented Abraham Lincoln. Not the man, of course, but the myth, that solemn and statuesque giant memorialized eternally overlooking the Capitol mall. The power of that myth and the quiet dignity of its personage [... more]
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To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown
You don't know John Brown: If you were, like I was, taught that John Brown was not much more than a well-meaning madman then you don't know the John Brown of history. Oates does a great job of dispelling that myth as well as presenting for the first time [... more]
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The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
The Fire of Nat Turner: This book is about the insurrection of Nat Turner against his slaveholder. This book is very good for a person who enjoys factual historical events about a slave striving for freedom. The book demonstrates the acts of the human [... more]
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The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861
Amazon.com Review: Acclaimed and prolific historian Stephen B. Oates looks at the events leading to the American Civil War through the eyes and words of 13 historic figures. Beginning with the Missouri Crisis of 1820 and ending with the outbreak of [... more]
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Portrait of America (Vol.2)
An Interesting Insight into History: We use this in my US History AP course and it's an interesting supplement. We read one piece each week. Some are amazing, others are rather pointless, but the book does a nice job of introducing each piece, and I also [... more]
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The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865
Amazon.com Review: The middle book in an anticipated trilogy, The Whirlwind of War is a unique study of the Civil War. Oates recounts the great struggle through a series of first-person monologues told in the voices of prominent figures such as Abraham [... more]
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With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Well-written and informative: With Malice Toward None is a well-written and informative look at Lincoln's life. I am very selective about the biographies that I spend my time reading because I consider the style of many to be suffocatingly boring. I [... more]
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The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861
Amazon.com Review: Acclaimed and prolific historian Stephen B. Oates looks at the events leading to the American Civil War through the eyes and words of 13 historic figures. Beginning with the Missouri Crisis of 1820 and ending with the outbreak of [... more]
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