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Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by John Stauffer, Twelve, 2008, $30 You’ll be hard-pressed to find a list of preeminent “self-made men” in American history that doesn’t include either Abraham Lincoln or Frederick Douglass. Until recently, however, few books about the relationship between the two 19th-century icons have been written. …
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