Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
c2009.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.