Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction - A. C. Guelzo
Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction - A. C. Guelzo Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless…
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Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction - A. C. Guelzo
Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents.If Lincoln was famous for reading aloud from joke books, Guelzo shows that he also plunged deeply into the mainstream of nineteenth-century liberal democratic thought. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C.
The book sets these problems and Lincoln's responses against the larger world of American and trans-Atlantic liberal democracy in the 19th Guelzo takes us on a wide-ranging exploration of problems that confronted Lincoln and liberal democracy--equality, opportunity, the rule of law, slavery, freedom, peace, and his legacy.