The best American history essays on Lincoln /
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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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.