Lincoln revisited [[electronic resource] ] : new insights from the Lincoln Forum / / edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456839703321
• Autore: Holzer Harold
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0-8232-3787-7; 0-8232-4086-X; 0-8232-4725-2; 0-8232-2738-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (387 p.)
• Collana: Lincoln Forum
• Altri autori (Persone): SimonJohn Y; HolzerHarold; VogelDawn
• Disciplina: 973.7092
• Soggetti: Presidents - United States; Electronic books.; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865; United States Politics and government 1861-1865
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Essays originally delivered as Lincoln Forum lectures between 2003 and 2005.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-364).
• Nota di contenuto: Lincoln's political faith in the Peoria address / Joseph R. Fornieri -- Lincoln's political religion and religious politics / Lucas E. Morel -- Lincoln, Douglas, and popular sovereignty : the Mormon dimension / John Y. Simon -- The campaign of 1860 : Cooper Union, Mathew Brady, and the campaign of words and images / Harold Holzer -- "I see the president" : Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home / Matthew Pinsker -- Varieties of religious experience : Abraham and Mary Lincoln / Jean Baker -- The poet and the president : Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman / Daniel Mark Epstein -- 1862--a year of decision for President Lincoln and General Halleck / John F. Marszalek -- "I felt it to be my duty to refuse" : the president and the slave trader / William Lee Miller -- Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant / Jean Edward Smith -- Motivating men : Lincoln, Grant, MacArthur, and Kennedy / Geoffrey Perret -- Lincoln and his admirals / Craig L. Symonds -- After ; emancipation : Abraham Lincoln's black dream / Michael Vorenberg -- The second inaugural address : the spoken words / Ronald C. White, Jr. -- Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties : then and now / Frank J. Williams -- After Lincoln's reelection : foreign complications / William C. Harris -- Henry Adams on Lincoln / Garry Wills -- Lincoln's assassination and John Wilkes Booth's Confederate connection / Edward Steers, Jr.
• Sommario/riassunto: In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet’s politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year historians find something new and important to say about the greatest of our Presidents.Lincoln Revisited is a masterly guidePub to what’s new and what’s noteworthy in this unfolding story—a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time. Brought together by The Lincoln Forum, they tackle uncharted territory and emerging questions; they also take a new look at established debates—including those about their own landmark works.Here, these well-known historians revisit key chapters in Lincoln’s legacy—from Matthew Pinsker on Lincoln’s private life and Jean Baker on religion and the Lincoln marriage to Geoffrey Perret on Lincoln as leader and Frank J. Williams on Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime.The eighteen original essays explore every corner of Lincoln’s world—religion and politics, slavery and sovereignty, presidential leadership and the rule of law, the Second Inaugural Address and the assassination.In his 1947 classic, Lincoln Reconsidered, David Herbert Donald confronted the Lincoln myth. Today, the scholars in Lincoln Revisited give a new generation of students, scholars, and citizens the perspectives vital for understanding the constantly reinterpreted genius of Abraham Lincoln.