Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in AmericaOne of the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars offers an authoritative consideration of the document that represents the most far-reaching accomplishment of our greatest president. No single official paper in American history changed the lives of as many Americans as Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. But no American document has been held up to greater suspicion. Its bland and lawyerlike language is unfavorably compared to the soaring eloquence of the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural; its effectiveness in freeing the slaves has been dismissed as a legal illusion. And for some African-Americans the Proclamation raises doubts about Lincoln himself. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation dispels the myths and mistakes surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation and skillfully reconstructs how America's greatest president wrote the greatest American proclamation of freedom. |
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... American Republic . " -Mackubin Thomas Owens , National Review " By setting the Proclamation in its exceedingly dicey context , Guelzo shows how tempting it is to read a false tidiness into political acts that in their time and place ...
... American Republic . " -Mackubin Thomas Owens , National Review " By setting the Proclamation in its exceedingly dicey context , Guelzo shows how tempting it is to read a false tidiness into political acts that in their time and place ...
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... American tradition of freedom of equality . " -Philadelphia Inquirer “ A book of great import to anyone who wants to recover the central meaning of the Civil War and America and needs to understand the contingencies of freedom ; for all ...
... American tradition of freedom of equality . " -Philadelphia Inquirer “ A book of great import to anyone who wants to recover the central meaning of the Civil War and America and needs to understand the contingencies of freedom ; for all ...
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... American Continent , " 1854 How to present unwelcome truth in a way that leads a substantial number of men and women ... America are like knights on horseback — the Negroes on a white horse and the white folks on a black . Sometimes the ...
... American Continent , " 1854 How to present unwelcome truth in a way that leads a substantial number of men and women ... America are like knights on horseback — the Negroes on a white horse and the white folks on a black . Sometimes the ...
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... Americans , What Now ? " in 1940 ; and to my nephew , Justin Hotchkiss of Boston University , for retrieving a copy ... American History ) is allowed sabbatical leave , but Eastern's president , Dr. David Black , generously endorsed my ...
... Americans , What Now ? " in 1940 ; and to my nephew , Justin Hotchkiss of Boston University , for retrieving a copy ... American History ) is allowed sabbatical leave , but Eastern's president , Dr. David Black , generously endorsed my ...
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... American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania opened access to the Van Pelt Library at Penn, for which I am ... America websites maintained by Cornell University and the University of Michigan (www.cdl.library.edu/cgi) were a ...
... American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania opened access to the Van Pelt Library at Penn, for which I am ... America websites maintained by Cornell University and the University of Michigan (www.cdl.library.edu/cgi) were a ...
Contents
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1834 | |
The President will Rise | 8 |
Three | 17 |
An Instrument in Gods Hands | 9 |
The Mighty | 73 |
Five | 27 |
Fame Takes him by the Hand | 71 |
Postscript | 1849 |
Notes | |
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