TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guelzo,Allen C.
TI  - Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas
SN  - 9781441623300 (electronic bk.)
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Carbondale
PB  - Southern Illinois University Press
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - United States
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Biography
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - 1845-1861
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 1783-1865
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.netlibrary.com.libraryumpsa.idm.oclc.org/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=291609
ER  -