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UNINA9910821272703321 |
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Autore |
Guelzo Allen C |
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Titolo |
Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas [[electronic resource] /] / Allen C. Guelzo ; with a foreword by Michael Lind |
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Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-69780-6 |
9786613674760 |
0-8093-8637-2 |
1-4416-2330-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (231 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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