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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... never gave me a cross word or look , and never refused , in fact or appearance , to do anything I requested him . . . . His mind and mine what little I had seemed to run together . " This inverts the Grimm - fairy - tale version of what ...
... never gave me a cross word or look , and never refused , in fact or appearance , to do anything I requested him . . . . His mind and mine what little I had seemed to run together . " This inverts the Grimm - fairy - tale version of what ...
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... never took it up again to my knowledge , never condescended to write his name in it , never spoke of it to me . " ( Herndon , like other Spring- field lawyers with books that were generally shared around , usually wrote his name at four ...
... never took it up again to my knowledge , never condescended to write his name in it , never spoke of it to me . " ( Herndon , like other Spring- field lawyers with books that were generally shared around , usually wrote his name at four ...
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... never served in any executive ca- pacity , not even as mayor of Springfield . Up till his election he had never run any organization more complex than his law office . Kansan Addison Proctor , who had been a delegate at the Wigwam ...
... never served in any executive ca- pacity , not even as mayor of Springfield . Up till his election he had never run any organization more complex than his law office . Kansan Addison Proctor , who had been a delegate at the Wigwam ...
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The Strife of Ideas | 3 |
The American System | 26 |
The Costs of Union | 64 |
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