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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... thing when it pinned down am- bitious whites , but another when it was fastened onto the necks of blacks . He certainly had few inhibitions about retailing vulgar racial jokes , like " the story of the old Virginian " he told Moses ...
... thing when it pinned down am- bitious whites , but another when it was fastened onto the necks of blacks . He certainly had few inhibitions about retailing vulgar racial jokes , like " the story of the old Virginian " he told Moses ...
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... thing , since it could function as a divine catharsis and generate the monu- mental decision - making necessary to conversion and religious happi- ness . But even then , the actual gift of grace remained still the action of an ...
... thing , since it could function as a divine catharsis and generate the monu- mental decision - making necessary to conversion and religious happi- ness . But even then , the actual gift of grace remained still the action of an ...
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... thing , lest I do wrong . " Later that month , he told Joshua Speed that as far as he was concerned , " I think I am a Whig . " But there were voices all around him which argued that " there are no whigs , and that I am an abolitionist ...
... thing , lest I do wrong . " Later that month , he told Joshua Speed that as far as he was concerned , " I think I am a Whig . " But there were voices all around him which argued that " there are no whigs , and that I am an abolitionist ...
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The Strife of Ideas | 3 |
The American System | 26 |
The Costs of Union | 64 |
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