"With malice toward none... to bind up the nation's wounds..." On March 4, 1865, as the gory Civil War limped toward a close, Lincoln gave his second inaugural address. It was a great work, the victorious culmination of this great man's lifelong struggle with the issue of slavery. It called the whole nation to account, and offered a moral framework for peace and reconciliation. "Must-have Lincolnalia."—Booklist