Books published by publisher W W Norton

Book Club edition, 1963, hardcover with dust jacket--the book is like-new, except for prior owner name and price at the top of the front inside cover and the name at the top of the inside back cover, unread, unopened, and unmarked, while the dust jacket has chipping at the top & bottom spine ends, mostly at the top, and a 1/4" closed tear on the top front edge about 2" from the spine end, with 5233 at the bottom of the outside, from Norton. By Anthony Burgess.

A major history of Civil War America through the lens of its two towering figures: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass."My husband considered you a dear friend," Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln's assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the president and the most famous black man in America—their lives traced different paths that finally met in the bloody landscape of secession, Civil War, and emancipation. Opponents at first, they gradually became allies, each influenced by and attracted to the other. Their three meetings in the White House signaled a profound shift in the direction of the Civil War, and in the fate of the United States. In this first book to draw the two together, James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history. He brings these two iconic figures to life and sheds new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.