The best American history essays on Lincoln / edited by Sean Wilentz for the Organization of American Historians.
2009
E457.8 .B47 2009 (Mapit)
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The best American history essays on Lincoln / edited by Sean Wilentz for the Organization of American Historians.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780230609150 (cloth)
9780230609143 (pbk.)
0230609155 (cloth)
0230609147 (pbk.)
9780230615564 (e-book)
0230615562
9780230609143 (pbk.)
0230609155 (cloth)
0230609147 (pbk.)
9780230615564 (e-book)
0230615562
Publication Details
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 252 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
E457.8 .B47 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.7092
Summary
Reflections on the life, political leadership, character, and legacy of Abraham Lincoln include contributions by such notable American historians as James McPherson, Edmund Wilson, and John Hope Franklin.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246) and index.
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Table of Contents
General appraisals. Abraham Lincoln and the self-made myth / Richard Hofstadter ; Abraham Lincoln / Edmund Wilson ; Naturally anti-slavery : Lincoln, race, and the complexity of American liberty / James Oliver Horton
The private Lincoln. A strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy / David Herbert Donald ; Mary and Abraham : a marriage / Jean H. Baker
Lincoln the politician. The master politician / Richard N. Current ; The origins and purpose of Lincoln's "house-divided" speech / Don E. Fehrenbacher ; Why the Republicans rejected both compromise and secession / David M. Potter
Lincoln, the presidency, and the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation : the decision and the writing / John Hope Franklin ; Lincoln and the strategy of unconditional surrender / James M. McPherson ; Lincoln and the Constitution / Mark E. Neely, Jr.
The private Lincoln. A strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy / David Herbert Donald ; Mary and Abraham : a marriage / Jean H. Baker
Lincoln the politician. The master politician / Richard N. Current ; The origins and purpose of Lincoln's "house-divided" speech / Don E. Fehrenbacher ; Why the Republicans rejected both compromise and secession / David M. Potter
Lincoln, the presidency, and the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation : the decision and the writing / John Hope Franklin ; Lincoln and the strategy of unconditional surrender / James M. McPherson ; Lincoln and the Constitution / Mark E. Neely, Jr.