Lincoln : the ambiguous icon / / Steven Johnston
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| Autore: |
Johnston Steven
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| Titolo: |
Lincoln : the ambiguous icon / / Steven Johnston
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2018] |
| ©2018 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 973.7092 |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Lincoln's ambiguity -- Lincoln's decisionism and the politics of elimination -- Democratic ironies of Lincoln's cinematic exceptionalism -- A "humble offering": the (first) Lincoln memorial -- Lincoln's persistent racial ambivalence: colonization -- What to the Indian is the Gettysburg Address? -- American exceptionalism or American narcissism? The second inaugural -- Lincoln's tragic revenge. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this book, political theorist Steve Johnston explores Lincoln's thought and political philosophy, but also his intentional and shrewdly calculated ambiguity - enabling him to be maximally politically effective in the face of unprecedented challenges. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Lincoln |
| ISBN: | 1-4422-6131-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910796948603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Modernity and political thought (Unnumbered)