The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and HistoryGabor S. Boritt, Norman O. Forness ''For Lincoln specialists, The Historian's Lincoln deepens and sharpens familiar arguments. For nonspecialists, it is the most efficient and enjoyable way to 'get right' with Lincoln.'' -- Robert E. McGlone, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography ''Provides an excursion to the frontiers of Lincoln scholarship, and insight into the passions of those who labor there. . . . Rarely do the products of a scholarly symposium so richly deserve placement on public and academic library shelves.'' -- John Y. Simon, Choice ''Authoritative, well written, and spiced by informed debate. In short, Lincoln's depth and height as a figure in history are well measured by this distinguished volume, not only in its several parts and authors, but also as a whole.'' -- Robert V. Bruce, author of Lincoln and the Tools of War |
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... becomes the great nationalist whose devotion to the union of the states reached the level of religious mysticism - someone rather in the mold of Italy's Camillo Benso di Cavour , Germany's Otto von Bismarck or , to point to Edmund ...
... becomes the great nationalist whose devotion to the union of the states reached the level of religious mysticism - someone rather in the mold of Italy's Camillo Benso di Cavour , Germany's Otto von Bismarck or , to point to Edmund ...
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... become the most quoted of " all Lincoln's writings , outstripping even the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural . ” 11 Without such a disavowal , Lincoln would have disappeared into a footnote to history . Instead he went to the ...
... become the most quoted of " all Lincoln's writings , outstripping even the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural . ” 11 Without such a disavowal , Lincoln would have disappeared into a footnote to history . Instead he went to the ...
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... become a radio feature and a television miniseries . To the general public , Vidal's is the most influential Lincoln image of our time . It is also the most insidiously ahistorical . The book's factual errors are a minor problem in a ...
... become a radio feature and a television miniseries . To the general public , Vidal's is the most influential Lincoln image of our time . It is also the most insidiously ahistorical . The book's factual errors are a minor problem in a ...
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... becomes Hon . Abraham Lincoln , Sixteenth President of the United States ( 14 x 18 ) . That Lincoln never quite had a beard like this seemed not to bother the unsophisticated print - buying public of mid - nineteenth - century America ...
... becomes Hon . Abraham Lincoln , Sixteenth President of the United States ( 14 x 18 ) . That Lincoln never quite had a beard like this seemed not to bother the unsophisticated print - buying public of mid - nineteenth - century America ...
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... Becomes a Storm Center One More Time , " Wall Street Journal , Oct. 30 , 1981 ; Eric Foner , " Lincoln , Bradford , and the Conserva- tives , " New York Times , Feb. 13 , 1982 ; and [ M. E. Bradford ] , " For the Chair of NEH : A ...
... Becomes a Storm Center One More Time , " Wall Street Journal , Oct. 30 , 1981 ; Eric Foner , " Lincoln , Bradford , and the Conserva- tives , " New York Times , Feb. 13 , 1982 ; and [ M. E. Bradford ] , " For the Chair of NEH : A ...
Contents
PM Zall Abe Lincoln Laughing | xxx |
Norma A Graebner | 19 |
Mark E Neely Jr | 26 |
A Selection from James Mellon The Face of Lincoln | 31 |
Harold Holzaer Gabor S Boritt and Mark E Neely Jr The Lincoln Image | 49 |
Wendy Wick Reaves | 80 |
IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS | 85 |
Gabor S Boritt Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream | 87 |
Herman Belz | 245 |
Dwight G Anderson Quest for Immortality A Theory of Abraham Lincolns Political Psychology | 251 |
Robert V Bruce | 273 |
Marcue Cunliffe | 277 |
George B Forgie Lincolns Tyrants Patricide in the House Divided | 283 |
Kenneth M Stampp | 300 |
Major L Wilson | 306 |
William Hanchett The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies | 313 |
Commentary ME Bradford | 107 |
Phillip S Paludan | 116 |
Glen E Thurow Abraham Lincoln and American Political Religion | 125 |
David Hein | 144 |
David A Nichols Lincoln and the Indians | 149 |
Hans L Trefousse | 170 |
La Wanda Cox Lincoln and Black Freedom | 175 |
Stephen B Oates | 195 |
Armstead L Robinson | 202 |
Charles B Strozier Lincolns Quest for Union Public and Private Meanings | 209 |
Jean Baker | 240 |
James M Mcpherson | 337 |
Thomas Reed Turner Beware the People Weeping | 343 |
James W Clarke | 363 |
Karold M Hyman | 368 |
Richard N Current Oates and the Handlins | 375 |
Don E Fehrenbacher Vidals Lincoln | 385 |
Rebuttals | 391 |
Contributors | 419 |
Index | 431 |
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Page xv - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.