A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (with New Foreword)Rowman & Littlefield, 2018 M09 1 - 620 páginas When it originally appeared, A New Birth of Freedom represented a milestone in Lincoln studies, the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America's foremost scholars of American politics. Now reissued on the centenary of Jaffa’s birth with a new foreword by the esteemed Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo, this long-awaited sequel to Jaffa’s earlier classic, Crisis of the House Divided, offers a piercing examination of the political thought of Abraham Lincoln and the themes of self-government, equality, and statesmanship on the eve of the Civil War. “Four decades ago, Harry Jaffa offered powerful insights on the Lincoln-Douglas debates in his Crisis of the House Divided. In this long-awaited sequel, he picks up the threads of that earlier study in this stimulating new interpretation of the showdown conflict between slavery and freedom in the election of 1860 and the secession crisis that followed. Every student of Lincoln needs to read and ponder this book.”— James M. McPherson, Princeton University “A masterful synthesis and analysis of the contending political philosophies on the eve of the Civil War. A magisterial work that arrives after a lifetime of scholarship and reflection—and earns our gratitude as well as our respect.”— Kirkus Reviews “The essence of Jaffa's case—meticulously laid out over nearly 500 pages—is that the Constitution is not, as Lincoln put it, a 'free love arrangement' held together by passing fancy. It is an indissoluble compact in which all men consent to be governed by majority, provided their inalienable rights are preserved.”— Bret Stephens; The Wall Street Journal |
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... debate orations, Jaffa shows what an astute, formidable, and brilliant interlocutor Lincoln was.”—Civil War Book ... debates, Harry Jaffa has brought the same combination of impressive learning, breadth of knowledge and bold argument ...
... debate orations, Jaffa shows what an astute, formidable, and brilliant interlocutor Lincoln was.”—Civil War Book ... debates, Harry Jaffa has brought the same combination of impressive learning, breadth of knowledge and bold argument ...
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... Debate That Shaped It—I The Mind of Lincoln's Inaugural and the Argument and Action of the Debate That Shaped It—II July 4, 1861: Lincoln Tells Why the Union Must Be Preserved Slavery, Secession, and State Rights: The Political Teaching ...
... Debate That Shaped It—I The Mind of Lincoln's Inaugural and the Argument and Action of the Debate That Shaped It—II July 4, 1861: Lincoln Tells Why the Union Must Be Preserved Slavery, Secession, and State Rights: The Political Teaching ...
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... debates. Jaffa later said, “I fell in love with the debates just because they were such wonderful reading.” Since he lacked the money to buy the book, he kept coming back to the store to read snatches until he had scraped together ...
... debates. Jaffa later said, “I fell in love with the debates just because they were such wonderful reading.” Since he lacked the money to buy the book, he kept coming back to the store to read snatches until he had scraped together ...
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... debates as mere political sound-and-fury, the sort of fustian nonsense into which American democracy frequently descended. “Solely on their merits,” Beveridge wrote, “the debates themselves deserve little notice.”7 But Jaffa, reading ...
... debates as mere political sound-and-fury, the sort of fustian nonsense into which American democracy frequently descended. “Solely on their merits,” Beveridge wrote, “the debates themselves deserve little notice.”7 But Jaffa, reading ...
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... debates were the first great twin-peak in the Lincoln literature, then the Gettysburg Address would surely beckon as the second. But for an extraordinarily long while, the Gettysburg Address did little but beckon. In 1964, Jaffa left ...
... debates were the first great twin-peak in the Lincoln literature, then the Gettysburg Address would surely beckon as the second. But for an extraordinarily long while, the Gettysburg Address did little but beckon. In 1964, Jaffa left ...
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Chapter 3 The Divided American Mind on the Eve of Conflict James Buchanan Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens Survey the Crisis | 153 |
Chapter 4 The Mind of Lincolns Inaugural and the Argument and Action of the Debate That Shaped ItI | 237 |
Chapter 5 The Mind of Lincolns Inaugural and the Argument and Action of the Debate That Shaped ItII | 285 |
Chapter 6 July 4 1861 Lincoln Tells Why the Union Must Be Preserved | 357 |
Chapter 7 Slavery Secession and State Rights The Political Teaching of John C Calhoun | 403 |
Appendix The Dividing Line between Federal and Local Authority Popular Sovereignty in the TerritoriesA Commentary | 473 |
Notes | 489 |
Index | 539 |
About the Author | 551 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War Harry V. Jaffa Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War Harry V. Jaffa Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War Harry V. Jaffa Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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