TY - BOOK AU - Guelzo,Allen C. AU - Lind,Michael ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas AV - E457.2 .G875 2009eb U1 - 973.7092 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Carbondale PB - Southern Illinois University Press KW - Lincoln, Abraham, 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 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10555634 ER -