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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His “ Doctrine , " with its intricate vocabulary of motives , necessity , and self -
interest , contained elements that were clearly foreign to the discourse of the
Baptists . What this vocabulary more nearly echoed , even more than Mill , was
the ...
His “ Doctrine , " with its intricate vocabulary of motives , necessity , and self -
interest , contained elements that were clearly foreign to the discourse of the
Baptists . What this vocabulary more nearly echoed , even more than Mill , was
the ...
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If interest could not be protected from piracy and intellectual theft , it would never
spark “ the fire of genius . " History , then , was a story of progress , and a
progress in which material acquisition and political liberation relied on each other
to ...
If interest could not be protected from piracy and intellectual theft , it would never
spark “ the fire of genius . " History , then , was a story of progress , and a
progress in which material acquisition and political liberation relied on each other
to ...
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These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest , ” Lincoln explained ,
and " All knew " - despite their denials - " that this interest was , somehow , the
cause of the war . ” The precise method by which slavery caused the war was , as
he ...
These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest , ” Lincoln explained ,
and " All knew " - despite their denials - " that this interest was , somehow , the
cause of the war . ” The precise method by which slavery caused the war was , as
he ...
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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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