Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas - Hardcover

Guelzo, Allen C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809328615 ISBN 13: 9780809328611

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009

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Allen Guelzo is one of the finest Lincoln scholars of our generation, and this book of essays reveals once again a unique combination of impeccable scholarship with a wonderfully readable narrative style. - Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln ""Written in an easy, flowing style, Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas is a valuable compendium of the ideas driving some of our most important historical inquiries into Lincoln's life and times. This first-rate collection is a significant contribution to the literature on Lincoln."" - Brian R. Dirck, author of Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865

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This title offers a look into the mind of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was a skilled politician, an inspirational leader, and a man of humor and pathos. What many may not realize is how much he was also a man of ideas. Despite the most meager of formal educations, Lincoln's tremendous intellectual curiosity drove him into the circle of Enlightenment philosophy and democratic political ideology. And from these, Lincoln developed a set of political convictions that guided him throughout his life and his presidency. ""Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas"", a compilation of ten essays from Lincoln scholar Allen C. Guelzo uncovers the sources of Lincoln's ideas and examines the beliefs that directed his career and brought an end to slavery and the Civil War. These essays reveal Lincoln to be a man of impressive intellectual probity and depth as well as a man of great contradictions. He was an apostle of freedom who did not believe in human free will; a champion of the Constitution who had to step outside of it in order to save it; a man of many acquaintances and admirers, but few friends; a man who opposed slavery but also opposed the abolition of it; and, a man of prudence who took more political risks than any other president. Guelzo explores the many facets of Lincoln's ideas, and especially the influence of the Founding Fathers and the great European champions of democracy. And he links the sixteenth president's struggles with the issues of race, emancipation, religion, and civil liberties to the challenges these issues continue to offer to Americans today. Lincoln played many roles in his life - lawyer, politician, president - but in each he was driven by a core of values, convictions, and beliefs about economics, society, and democracy. ""Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas"" is a broad and exciting survey of the ideas that made Lincoln great, just as we celebrate the bicentennial his birth.

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• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0809328615
• ISBN 13: 9780809328611
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224