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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... believed that there was a predestined work for him in the world . " It was not passivity , but charity which was the last fruit of Lincoln's " Doctrine of Necessity . " Since Lincoln was a " thorough fatalist " and " believed that what ...
... believed that there was a predestined work for him in the world . " It was not passivity , but charity which was the last fruit of Lincoln's " Doctrine of Necessity . " Since Lincoln was a " thorough fatalist " and " believed that what ...
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... believed that Lincoln's predestinarianism was precisely what located him close to universalism , another late - eigh- teenth - century New England revolt from Calvinism which preached the ultimate salvation of all human souls . Ever ...
... believed that Lincoln's predestinarianism was precisely what located him close to universalism , another late - eigh- teenth - century New England revolt from Calvinism which preached the ultimate salvation of all human souls . Ever ...
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... believed even his own legitimacy was not beyond ques- tion . Bastardy , like necessity , cursed its victims without hope of appeal or redress , and Herndon believed that the rumors of bastardy con- vinced Lincoln " that God had cursed ...
... believed even his own legitimacy was not beyond ques- tion . Bastardy , like necessity , cursed its victims without hope of appeal or redress , and Herndon believed that the rumors of bastardy con- vinced Lincoln " that God had cursed ...
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The Strife of Ideas | 3 |
The American System | 26 |
The Costs of Union | 64 |
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