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Lincoln lessons reflections on America's greatest leader /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Jaffa -- Lincoln through the eyes of a civil war and civil rights historian / John F. Marszalek -- Lincoln's legacy for our time / James M. …”
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George Eliot's intellectual life
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…The "evangelical": starting out in a Christian culture -- The apostate: moving beyond the Christian mythos -- The journalist: editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview -- The Germanist: balancing the counterweight of German thinkers -- The novelist: mixing realism, naturalism and mythmaking -- The historian: tracking ideals-utopian and national-in Romola and The Spanish gypsy -- The "radical": taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt -- The encyclopedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch -- The visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda -- The intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of theophrastus Such.…”
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The mind of Thomas Jefferson
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Making sense of Jefferson -- American synecdoche : Thomas Jefferson as image, icon, character, and self (with Jan Ellen Lewis) -- A declaration of independence for diplomatic historians -- Thomas Jefferson, federalist -- The revolution of 1803 -- Thomas Jefferson and the expanding union -- The Louisiana Purchase and American federalism -- Jefferson's religion : priestcraft, enlightenment, and the republican revolution -- Liberty to learn -- Thomas Jefferson's military academy : a summary view -- Thomas Jefferson, race, and national identity -- Every generation is an "independant nation" : colonization, miscegenation, and the fate of Jefferson's children -- Jefferson, morality, and the problem of slavery (with Ari Helo).…”
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