Stephen B. Oates Audio Books

The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King Jr. (Henry Steele Commanger, Philadelphia Inquirer)

In October 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry. His goal was to secure weapons and start a slave rebellion. The raid was a failure, but it galvanized the nation and sparked the Civil War.

The definitive life of Abraham Lincoln, With Malice Toward None is historian Stephen B.

An essential book for any student of Lincoln and American history, Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths is acclaimed Lincoln biographer Stephen B. Oates' unique exploration of America's 16th president in reality and memory.

The fierce slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831 and the savage reprisals that followed shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War.