Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer PresidentAllen C. Guelzo, Henry R Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies Allen C Guelzo W.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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Página 67
There was some consolation in the fact that his home precinct of New Salem had
gone for him almost unanimously , but that must have paled beside the
unhappier fact that Lincoln was now without employment . Offutt's store had given
up the ...
There was some consolation in the fact that his home precinct of New Salem had
gone for him almost unanimously , but that must have paled beside the
unhappier fact that Lincoln was now without employment . Offutt's store had given
up the ...
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In desperation , Berry and Lincoln applied for a license to turn their store into a
tavern - " a common grocery - whiskey shop " - despite the fact that Lincoln
himself had an aversion to the kind of hard liquor a village tavern was expected
to ...
In desperation , Berry and Lincoln applied for a license to turn their store into a
tavern - " a common grocery - whiskey shop " - despite the fact that Lincoln
himself had an aversion to the kind of hard liquor a village tavern was expected
to ...
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Still worse , it would seem to give recognition to the fact of secession , and force
him in the direction of making abolition the war's supreme aim ( after all , if
secession were a legal fact , one could scarcely confine the aims of the war to the
...
Still worse , it would seem to give recognition to the fact of secession , and force
him in the direction of making abolition the war's supreme aim ( after all , if
secession were a legal fact , one could scarcely confine the aims of the war to the
...
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Crítica de los usuarios - twatson79 - LibraryThingVery engaging biography on Lincoln, detailing his philosophy, religiosity, and general thought life. Guelzo does well in showing Lincoln to be a man of deep convictions as well as showing how those ... Leer comentario completo
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The Strife of Ideas | 3 |
The American System | 26 |
The Costs of Union | 64 |
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While God is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers Steven E. Woodworth,Steven E.. Woodworth Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President Library of religious biography |
| Autores | Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies Allen C Guelzo |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 19 Sep. 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802838723, 9780802838728 |
| Largo | 516 páginas |
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