Guelzo, Allen C. <br/><br/>
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.) 
<br/><br/> Description based on print version record 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access : Internet 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781441623300 (electronic bk.) 1441623302 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Slaves--Emancipation--United States<br/>Presidents--United States--Biography
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government--1861-1865<br/>United States--Politics and government--1845-1861<br/>United States--Politics and government--Philosophy<br/>United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865