Franklin D.Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln: Competing Perspectives on Two Great PresidenciesAbraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt are widely considered the two greatest presidents of the past two centuries. How did these two very different men rise to power, run their administrations, and achieve greatness? How did they set their policies, rally public opinion, and transform the nation? Were they ultimately more different or alike? This anthology compares these two presidents and presidencies, examining their legacies, leadership styles, and places in history. |
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... Republican Party—their sixteenth president—for his own purposes.3 By the time of his death, shortly before the end of another war, FDR achieved a popular stature equal to that of President Lincoln. Indeed, he ranked even higher than the ...
... Republican Party—their sixteenth president—for his own purposes.3 By the time of his death, shortly before the end of another war, FDR achieved a popular stature equal to that of President Lincoln. Indeed, he ranked even higher than the ...
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... Republicans.5 Long before Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt was linked with Lincoln as a commander-in-chief as their careers converged. Both Lincoln and Roosevelt unified the nation behind a war defined in moral terms. Both inspired his fellow ...
... Republicans.5 Long before Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt was linked with Lincoln as a commander-in-chief as their careers converged. Both Lincoln and Roosevelt unified the nation behind a war defined in moral terms. Both inspired his fellow ...
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... Republican party" who had created sectionalism in the United States, Roosevelt boldly declared. "Before the first stone was laid for the first memorial to Abraham Lincoln his wise policy of forgiveness and forgetfulness had been ...
... Republican party" who had created sectionalism in the United States, Roosevelt boldly declared. "Before the first stone was laid for the first memorial to Abraham Lincoln his wise policy of forgiveness and forgetfulness had been ...
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... Republican president made it more difficult for FDR to use Lincoln. In addition to the fact that Lincoln was a Republican from Pigeon Creek, Kentucky and New Salem, Illinois, FDR was from Dutchess County, New York, and Hyde Park. But he ...
... Republican president made it more difficult for FDR to use Lincoln. In addition to the fact that Lincoln was a Republican from Pigeon Creek, Kentucky and New Salem, Illinois, FDR was from Dutchess County, New York, and Hyde Park. But he ...
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... Republican president seemed so pertinent for the New Deal programs that FDR repeated them at least on two other occasions. In his first administration, FDR pushed more the exemplar of Jefferson than Abraham Lincoln, it would appear ...
... Republican president seemed so pertinent for the New Deal programs that FDR repeated them at least on two other occasions. In his first administration, FDR pushed more the exemplar of Jefferson than Abraham Lincoln, it would appear ...
Contents
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Comparative Political Leadership | 153 |
Teaching a Legacy | 213 |
Chronology | 247 |
Biographical Digest | 258 |
Selected Bibliography | 271 |
List of Contributors | 280 |
Index | 281 |
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