Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography - Hardcover

Miller, William Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037540158X ISBN 13: 9780375401589

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2002

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A dramatic interpretation of the moral and intellectual development of Abraham Lincoln chronicles the events and experiences of his life up to his key decisions during the winter of secession, explaining how Lincoln shaped himself as a writer, speaker, moral arbiter, politician, and statement. 17,500 first printing.

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William Lee Miller has taught at Yale University, Smith College, Indiana University, and the University of Virginia, where he is currently Miller Center of Public Affairs Scholar in Ethics and Institutions. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Arguing About Slavery (1996), which won the D. B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress.

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nschooled career politician named Abraham Lincoln, from the raw frontier villages of early-nineteenth-century Illinois, become one of the most revered of our national icons? This is the question that William Lee Miller explores and answers, in fascinating detail, in Lincoln s Virtues.

Lincoln, Miller says, was a great man who was also a good man. It is the central thrust of this ethical biography to reveal how he became both, to trace his moral and intellectual development in the context of his times and in confrontation with the leading issues of the day most notably, of course, that of slavery.

Following the rough chronology of Lincoln s life up to the crucial decisions in the winter of secession, the narrative portrays his conscious shaping of himself as a writer, speaker, moral agent, politician, and statesman. Miller shows us a man who educated himself through reading, had a mind inclined to plow down to first principles and h

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 037540158X
• ISBN 13: 9780375401589
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 515
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