Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer PresidentW.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999 - 516 páginas This major biography of Abraham Lincoln has won the prestigious Lincoln Prize, the annual award given to the best book in the Civil War field. Guelzo's superb work breaks new ground in exploring the role of ideas in Lincoln's life, treating him for the first time as a serious thinker deeply involved in the struggles of nineteenth-century thought. |
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... North as the seat of unqualified righteousness and the South as the cave of unqualified evil . Charles Hodge , who had left Whiggism in 1856 to vote for Fremont and then Lincoln , agreed that " This war touches the conscience in too ...
... North as the seat of unqualified righteousness and the South as the cave of unqualified evil . Charles Hodge , who had left Whiggism in 1856 to vote for Fremont and then Lincoln , agreed that " This war touches the conscience in too ...
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... North together — in which the war's losses were the wages of na- tional sin , payable by both in life and treasure ... North and South were simple moral equivalents . The fact that , in 1854 , they might be " no more re- sponsible for ...
... North together — in which the war's losses were the wages of na- tional sin , payable by both in life and treasure ... North and South were simple moral equivalents . The fact that , in 1854 , they might be " no more re- sponsible for ...
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... North only insisted that it " would accept war rather than let it perish . " The North might not be perfect , but it was clearly on the side of the angels . In that light , then , North and South were to be weighed and judged in spite ...
... North only insisted that it " would accept war rather than let it perish . " The North might not be perfect , but it was clearly on the side of the angels . In that light , then , North and South were to be weighed and judged in spite ...
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The Strife of Ideas | 3 |
The American System | 26 |
The Costs of Union | 64 |
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