President Abraham Lincoln’s close and sometimes tumultuous friendship with former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass is the subject of Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Author John Stauffer says the two men were alike in many ways though they strategically on how to end slavery.
Listen to John Staufer discuss Lincoln and Douglass with Terri Gross (12 minutes)
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