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A new birth of freedom : Abraham Lincoln and the coming of the Civil War

Now reissued on the centenary of Jaffa’s birth with a new foreword by the esteemed Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo, this long-awaited sequel offers a piercing examination of the political thought of Abraham Lincoln and the themes of self-government, equality, and statesmanship on the eve of the Civil War.
eBook, English, 2018
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2018
Biographies
1 online resource (xxxviii, 552 pages)
9781538114339, 153811433X
1076573781
Ch. 1. The Election of 1800 and the Election of 1860
Ch. 2. The Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and the Historians
Ch. 3. The Divided American Mind on the Eve of Conflict: James Buchanan, Jefferson Davis, and Alexander Stephens Survey the Crisis
Ch. 4. The Mind of Lincoln's Inaugural and the Argument and Action of the Debate That Shaped It
I
Ch. 5. The Mind of Lincoln's Inaugural and the Argument and Action of the Debate That Shaped It
II
Ch. 6. July 4, 1861: Lincoln Tells Why the Union Must Be Preserved
Ch. 7. Slavery, Secession, and State Rights: The Political Teaching of John C. Calhoun
App. "The Dividing Line between Federal and Local Authority: Popular Sovereignty in the Territories"
A Commentary
Originally published in 2000; reissued with a new foreword