Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas
Guelzo, Allen C.
Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas [electronic resource] / Allen C. Guelzo ; with a foreword by Michael Lind - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009 - 1 online resource (ix, 216 p.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Mode of access : Internet
9781441623300 (electronic bk.) 1441623302 (electronic bk.)
Slaves--Emancipation--United States
Presidents--United States--Biography
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
Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas [electronic resource] / Allen C. Guelzo ; with a foreword by Michael Lind - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009 - 1 online resource (ix, 216 p.)
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Mode of access : Internet
9781441623300 (electronic bk.) 1441623302 (electronic bk.)
Slaves--Emancipation--United States
Presidents--United States--Biography
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