Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas [electronic resource] / Allen C. Guelzo ; with a foreword by Michael Lind.
Publication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009.Description: ix, 216 p. : portSubject(s):- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Philosophy
- 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
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- E457.2 .G875 2009eb
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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