The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

By Brian Kilmeade

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

In The President and the Freedom Fighter (2019), broadcaster Brian Kilmeade recounts the parallel lives of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, both self-taught men who rose from poverty, one born free on the frontier and the other into slavery. Kilmeade follows Douglass's escape and career as an abolitionist speaker and writer, Lincoln's rise to the presidency and the uneasy alliance the two formed during the Civil War over emancipation and the recruitment of Black soldiers.

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• Tony Robbins: “Their friendship and shared mission changed the course of our country and this book is such a great read!”