| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 252 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-246) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- A strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy / David Herbert Donald -- Mary and Abraham : a marriage / Jean H. Baker -- 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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views.
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Political leadership -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Wilentz, Sean.
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Organization of American Historians.
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| ISBN |
0230609155 |
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9780230609150 |
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0230609147 |
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9780230609143 |
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