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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821272703321

Autore

Guelzo Allen C

Titolo

Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas [[electronic resource] /] / Allen C. Guelzo ; with a foreword by Michael Lind

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-280-69780-6

9786613674760

0-8093-8637-2

1-4416-2330-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LindMichael

Disciplina

973.7092

Soggetti

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States

Presidents - United States

United States Politics and government 1861-1865

United States Politics and government 1845-1861

United States Politics and government Philosophy

United States Intellectual life 1783-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: what would Lincoln do? -- The unlikely intellectual biography of Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln and the doctrine of necessity -- Come-outers and community-men: Abraham Lincoln and the idea of community in nineteenth-century America -- Lincoln and natural law -- "Fiends ... facing Zionwards": Abraham Lincoln's reluctant embrace of the abolitionists -- Apples of gold in a picture of silver: Lincoln, the constitution, and liberty -- Understanding emancipation: Lincoln's proclamation and the end of slavery -- Defending emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling letter, August 1863 -- Prudence and the Proclamation -- Lincoln and the "war powers" of the Presidency.

Sommario/riassunto

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 hidden sources of L