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Lincoln lessons : reflections on America's greatest leader /

In Lincoln Lessons, seventeen of today' s most respected academics, historians, lawyers, and politicians provide candid reflections on the importance of Abraham Lincoln in their intellectual lives. Their essays, gathered by editors Frank J. Williams and William D. Pederson, shed new light on th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Williams, Frank J., Pederson, William D., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Getting right with Mary Lincoln: or, how a first lady taught me to be a feminist / Jean H. Baker
  • Lincoln on democracy / Mario M. Cuomo
  • A view from the Lincoln museum / Joan Flinspach
  • The evolution of a Lincoln editor / Sara Vaughn Gabbard
  • Transforming foes to allies: the political alchemy of Lincoln / Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • The Lincoln visual image: a personal journey of discovery / Harold V. Jaffa
  • Lincoln through the eyes of a civil war and civil rights historian / John F. Marszalek
  • Lincoln's legacy for our time / James M. McPherson
  • Lincoln and African American memory / Edna Greene Medford
  • Suspension of habeas corpus / Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Lincoln and the meaning of equality: how I became a "lost cause" apostate / Mackubin Thomas Owens
  • Crossing borders to an international Lincoln / William D. Pederson
  • Tell me what you want to believe, and I'll tell you what you will believe / Edward Steers Jr.
  • Sixteen feet tall: Abraham Lincoln and history / Craig L. Symonds
  • Historian, editor, and the assassination legacy / Thomas Reed Turner
  • The compleat Lincolnator: enthusiast, collector, and scholar / Frank J. Williams.