Lincoln's Enduring Legacy :: Perspectives from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment.

Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. Thebook explores how Lincoln's wor...

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Other Authors: Watson, Robert P. (Editor), Pederson, William D. (Editor), Williams, Frank J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington Books 2011.
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Online Access:DE-862
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Summary:Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. Thebook explores how Lincoln's words and deeds have influenced the pursuit of justice and freedom and the practice of democracy in the century and a half since he governed. Lincoln, as an abolitionist, the architect of Reconstruction, an avowed Unionist, a wordsmith and rhetorician, his age's foremost prophet for democracy, and America's greatest president remains an iconic image in American memory.
Physical Description:1 online resource (273)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780739149898
073914989X
9780739149911
0739149911
9786613084675
6613084670
1283084678
9781283084673

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