William S. McFeely

Born into but escaped from slavery, Frederick Douglass—an orator, journalist, autobiographer, and revolutionary on behalf of a just America—was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) galvanized the antislavery movement and is one of the truly seminal works of African-American literature. In this Lincoln Prize–winning biography, Frederick Douglass by...