02371nam 2200457 450 991079377980332120181204085305.00-8093-3738-X(CKB)4100000008780649(MiAaPQ)EBC5839839(EXLCZ)99410000000878064920190828d2019 ub 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAbraham Lincoln's statesmanship and the limits of liberal democracy /Jon D. SchaffCarbondale :Southern Illinois University Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (207 pages)Significant revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Loyola University Chicago, 2002, titled The domestic Lincoln : presidential leadership, realignment and public policy.0-8093-3737-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Lincoln and the architecture of democracy's soul -- Lincoln and the political virtues of prudence and moderation -- Lincoln and the defense of natural rights -- Lincoln's political economy in the American tradition -- The domestic Lincoln: presidential power and the Second American Revolution -- Lincoln and the Second American Revolution -- Whigs and Lincoln: a realignment reconsidered -- The domestic Lincoln and Congressional government."Schaff analyzes how Lincoln's political thought and presidential statesmanship illustrate the need for a limit to democratic excess. Decent government, he argues, demands a balance of competing political goods as well as the strong statesmanship Lincoln exemplified to maintain that equilibrium"--Provided by publisher.PresidentsUnited StatesBiographyPolitical leadershipUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesPolitics and government1861-1865United StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865PresidentsPolitical leadershipHistory.973.7092Schaff Jon D.1971-1512152MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793779803321Abraham Lincoln's statesmanship and the limits of liberal democracy3745912UNINA