Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, indirect friends, cultural opponents and socially mobile young men who represent industrial era cultural change. Perhaps they represent role models for change in the digital era.
"Lincoln and Douglass were low-caste figures in American society and being intelligent young men, they knew it, and struggled to escape it. Both identified reading and education as the key to their ascendance, and each took solace (and early moral and political shaping) from a book titled The Columbian Orator."....Michael Patrick Brady 18 November 2008
Brady goes on to state,
"In this sense, Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln is an extraordinarily apt book for our times. Obama’s political and personal pedigree has drawn comparisons to both men."
It is almost as President Obama's duality as a black political figure is inspected in this interesting lecture.
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