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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... mind is impelled to action , or held in rest by some power , over which the mind itself has no control ; and I have sometimes ( with one , two or three , but never publicly ) tried to maintain this opinion in argument . The habit of ...
... mind is impelled to action , or held in rest by some power , over which the mind itself has no control ; and I have sometimes ( with one , two or three , but never publicly ) tried to maintain this opinion in argument . The habit of ...
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... Mind ( 1851 ) , should not be " an expression of hatred , but a means of exciting in the mind of the delinquent a motive to do right , and thereby ... remedying his deficient moral state . " Lincoln , who had arrived at precisely the ...
... Mind ( 1851 ) , should not be " an expression of hatred , but a means of exciting in the mind of the delinquent a motive to do right , and thereby ... remedying his deficient moral state . " Lincoln , who had arrived at precisely the ...
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... mind . " Davis took this reticence as a sign of Lincoln's contempt , but it was just as much a desire on Lincoln's part to keep his decision making free from the in- fluence of others . He had criticized himself earlier for being too ...
... mind . " Davis took this reticence as a sign of Lincoln's contempt , but it was just as much a desire on Lincoln's part to keep his decision making free from the in- fluence of others . He had criticized himself earlier for being too ...
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The Strife of Ideas | 3 |
The American System | 26 |
The Costs of Union | 64 |
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