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Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, by John Stauffer

By Michael Patrick Brady

Stauffer demonstrates in amusing and enlightening fashion the pivotal role fisticuffs and fighting had in helping Lincoln and Douglass define themselves and take control of their fates. [18 November 2008]