William S. McFeely is Abraham Baldwin Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen; Grant: A Biography, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Parkman Prize; Frederick Douglass, which received the Lincoln Prize; Sapelo’s People: A Long Walk into Freedom; and Proximity to Death.
"A detailed, finely written portrait of the imposing 19th-century
leader."
*David Levering Lewis - The New York Times Book Review*
"Stunning... This illuminating portrait dispenses with the
myths."
*Financial Times*
"Absolutely nonpareil…"
*Nell Irvin Painter - The Boston Globe*
"Compelling... Suggests that the Age of Douglass was this nation’s
greatest epoch... What a time. What a book."
*Los Angeles Times*
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