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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455403303321

Titolo

Lincoln lessons [[electronic resource] ] : reflections on America's greatest leader / / edited by Frank J. Williams and William D. Pederson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-280-69742-3

9786613674388

0-8093-8670-4

1-4416-2368-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WilliamsFrank J

PedersonWilliam D. <1946->

Disciplina

973.7092

Soggetti

Political leadership - United States

Democracy - United States

Presidents - United States

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-172) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Getting right with Mary Lincoln: or, how a first lady taught me to be a feminist / Jean H. Baker -- Lincoln on democracy / Mario M. Cuomo -- A view from the Lincoln museum / Joan Flinspach -- The evolution of a Lincoln editor / Sara Vaughn Gabbard -- Transforming foes to allies: the political alchemy of Lincoln / Doris Kearns Goodwin -- The Lincoln visual image: a personal journey of discovery / Harold V. Jaffa -- Lincoln through the eyes of a civil war and civil rights historian / John F. Marszalek -- Lincoln's legacy for our time / James M. McPherson -- Lincoln and African American memory / Edna Greene Medford -- Suspension of habeas corpus / Sandra Day O'Connor -- Lincoln and the meaning of equality: how I became a "lost cause" apostate / Mackubin Thomas Owens -- Crossing borders to an international Lincoln / William D. Pederson -- Tell me what you want to believe, and I'll tell you what you will believe / Edward Steers Jr. -- Sixteen feet tall: Abraham Lincoln and history / Craig L. Symonds -- Historian, editor,



and the assassination legacy / Thomas Reed Turner -- The compleat Lincolnator: enthusiast, collector, and scholar / Frank J. Williams.