Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer PresidentThis major biography of Abraham Lincoln has won the prestigious Lincoln Prize, the annual award given to the best book in the Civil War field. Guelzo's superb work breaks new ground in exploring the role of ideas in Lincoln's life, treating him for the first time as a serious thinker deeply involved in the struggles of nineteenth-century thought. |
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... York's William Seward and the Tribune's Horace Greeley , openly courted Douglas , and Repub- lican money financed a mass printing of Douglas's anti - Lecompton speech . Lincoln noticed the threat in this movement as early as Decem- ber ...
... York's William Seward and the Tribune's Horace Greeley , openly courted Douglas , and Repub- lican money financed a mass printing of Douglas's anti - Lecompton speech . Lincoln noticed the threat in this movement as early as Decem- ber ...
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... York Republicans invited Lincoln to ad- dress an open meeting at Henry Ward Beecher's celebrated Plymouth Church . Not only would this give Lincoln critical first - hand exposure to the east - coast Republican leadership , but it would ...
... York Republicans invited Lincoln to ad- dress an open meeting at Henry Ward Beecher's celebrated Plymouth Church . Not only would this give Lincoln critical first - hand exposure to the east - coast Republican leadership , but it would ...
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Redeemer President Allen C. Guelzo. York City , where Republicans like Horace Greeley , David Dudley Field , and William Cullen Bryant were already complaining that Seward , New York's favorite son , might be too unstable to sustain the ...
Redeemer President Allen C. Guelzo. York City , where Republicans like Horace Greeley , David Dudley Field , and William Cullen Bryant were already complaining that Seward , New York's favorite son , might be too unstable to sustain the ...
Contents
The Strife of Ideas | 3 |
The American System | 26 |
The Costs of Union | 64 |
Copyright | |
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