Lincoln reconsidered : essays on the Civil War era
Record details
- ISBN: 0375725326
- Physical Description: xiv, 210 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 3rd ed., rev. and updated, Vintage Books ed.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2001.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Bibliographical essay: p. 181-193. Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Getting right with Lincoln -- The folklore Lincoln -- Toward a reconsideration of abolitionists -- An excess of democracy: the American Civil War and the social process -- Education defective: Lincoln's preparation for greatness -- Herndon and Mary Lincoln -- Refighting the Civil War -- The Radicals and Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln and the American pragmatic tradition -- A Whig in the White House -- Reverence for the laws: Abraham Lincoln and the Founding Fathers -- A. Lincoln, politician. |
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| Subject: | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865. |