On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American HistoryYale University Press, 2000 M01 1 - 330 páginas In this book, John Patrick Diggins, hailed by Alan Ryan in the New York Times, offers a sweeping reassessment of American history, emphasizing the foundational role of Abraham Lincoln’s moral and political theory. Distressed by the divisive impact of modern identity politics, Diggins argues persuasively that in the central tenets of Lincoln’s political faith-the redeeming value of labor and the rights to property and self-determination-we find the purest expression of the values that have united Americans and guided American history. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Abraham Lincoln Toward a Synthesis with Foundations | 17 |
Americas Lockean Moment The Revolution and the Spirit of 76 | 41 |
American Identity in an Age of Political Correctness | 71 |
American Exceptionalism | 101 |
The Pride and the Pain History in the Classroom and in Public Controversy | 127 |
The Last Best Hope or the Suicide of the West? | 152 |
Politics at the Center Professors at the Peripheries The Legacy of the 1960s | 182 |
What Do Workers Want? | 211 |
Outside Demanding In Women between Republicanism and Lockeanism | 236 |
Black America and the Liberal Tradition | 256 |
The New Self and the Tragic Ambiguity | 278 |
Notes | 293 |
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On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History John P. Diggins Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History John Patrick Diggins Sin vista previa disponible - 2011 |
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