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Book Synopsis President Lincoln by : William Lee Miller
Download or read book President Lincoln written by William Lee Miller and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his acclaimed book Lincoln's Virtues, William Lee Miller explored Abraham Lincoln's intellectual and moral development. Now he completes his "ethical biography," showing how the amiable and inexperienced backcountry politician was transformed by constitutional alchemy into an oath-bound head of state. Faced with a radical moral contradiction left by the nation's Founders, Lincoln struggled to find a balance between the universal ideals of Equality and Liberty and the monstrous injustice of human slavery. With wit and penetrating sensitivity, Miller brings together the great themes that have become Lincoln's legacy—preserving the United States of America while ending the odious institution that corrupted the nation's meaning—and illuminates his remarkable presidential combination: indomitable resolve and supreme magnanimity.
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Virtues by : William Lee Miller
Download or read book Lincoln's Virtues written by William Lee Miller and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Lee Miller’s ethical biography is a fresh, engaging telling of the story of Lincoln’s rise to power. Through careful scrutiny of Lincoln’s actions, speeches, and writings, and of accounts from those who knew him, Miller gives us insight into the moral development of a great politician — one who made the choice to go into politics, and ultimately realized that vocation’s fullest moral possibilities. As Lincoln’s Virtues makes refreshingly clear, Lincoln was not born with his face on Mount Rushmore; he was an actual human being making choices — moral choices — in a real world. In an account animated by wit and humor, Miller follows this unschooled frontier politician’s rise, showing that the higher he went and the greater his power, the worthier his conduct would become. He would become that rare bird, a great man who was also a good man. Uniquely revealing of its subject’s heart and mind, it represents a major contribution to our understanding and of Lincoln, and to the perennial American discussion of the relationship between politics and morality.
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Lee by : Dudley Taylor Cornish
Download or read book Lincoln's Lee written by Dudley Taylor Cornish and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lincoln Or Lee by : William Edward Dodd
Download or read book Lincoln Or Lee written by William Edward Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lincoln Or Lee by : William Edward Dodd
Download or read book Lincoln Or Lee written by William Edward Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lincoln and the American Founding by : Lucas E. Morel
Download or read book Lincoln and the American Founding written by Lucas E. Morel and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this persuasive work of intellectual history, Lucas E. Morel argues that the most important influence on Abraham Lincoln’s political thought and practice was what he learned from the leading figures of and documents from the birth of the United States. In this systematic account of those principles, Morel compellingly demonstrates that to know Lincoln well is to understand thoroughly the founding of America. With each chapter describing a particular influence, Morel leads readers from the Founding Father, George Washington; to the founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and Constitution; to the founding compromise over slavery; and finally to a consideration of how the original intentions of the Founding Fathers should be respected in light of experience, progress, and improvements over time. Within these key discussions, Morel shows that without the ideals of the American Revolution, Lincoln’s most famous speeches would be unrecognizable, and the character of the nation would have lost its foundation on the universal principles of human equality, individual liberty, and government by the consent of the governed. Lincoln thought that the principles of human equality and individual rights could provide common ground for a diverse people to live as one nation and that some old things, such as the political ideals of the American founding, were worth preserving. He urged Americans to be vigilant in maintaining the institutions of self-government and to exercise and safeguard the benefits of freedom for future generations. Morel posits that adopting the way of thinking and speaking Lincoln advocated, based on the country’s founding, could help mend our current polarized discourse and direct the American people to employ their common government on behalf of a truly common good.
Book Synopsis Lincoln and the Fight for Peace by : John Avlon
Download or read book Lincoln and the Fight for Peace written by John Avlon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking and “affecting and powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War—a vision that inspired future presidents as well as the world’s most famous peacemakers. As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln took a dangerous two-week trip to visit the troops on the front lines accompanied by his young son, seeing combat up close, meeting liberated slaves in the ruins of Richmond, and comforting wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. The power of Lincoln’s personal example in the closing days of the war offers a portrait of a peacemaker. He did not demonize people he disagreed with. He used humor, logic, and scripture to depolarize bitter debates. Balancing moral courage with moderation, Lincoln believed that decency could be the most practical form of politics, but he understood that people were more inclined to listen to reason when greeted from a position of strength. Ulysses S. Grant’s famously generous terms of surrender to General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox that April were an expression of a president’s belief that a soft peace should follow a hard war. While his assassination sent the country careening off course, Lincoln’s vision would be vindicated long after his death, inspiring future generations in their own quests to secure a just and lasting peace. As US General Lucius Clay, architect of the post-WWII German occupation said when asked what guided his decisions: “I tried to think of the kind of occupation the South would have had if Abraham Lincoln had lived.” Lincoln and the Fight for Peace reveals with “its graceful prose and wise insights” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America) how Lincoln’s character informed his commitment to unconditional surrender followed by a magnanimous peace. Even during the Civil War, surrounded by reactionaries and radicals, he refused to back down from his belief that there is more that unites us than divides us. But he also understood that peace needs to be waged with as much intensity as war. Lincoln’s plan to win the peace is his unfinished symphony, but in its existing notes, we can find an anthem that can begin to bridge our divisions today.
Book Synopsis Lincoln, Lee, Grant, and Other Biographical Addresses by : Emory Speer
Download or read book Lincoln, Lee, Grant, and Other Biographical Addresses written by Emory Speer and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mr. Lincoln's City by : Richard McGowan Lee
Download or read book Mr. Lincoln's City written by Richard McGowan Lee and published by E P M Publications. This book was released on 1981 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work describes 80 Civil War era historic sites in downtown Washington, D.C.
Download or read book Abe Lincoln written by Sterling North and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1956 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Abraham Lincoln focuses on his childhood spent in poverty on the Midwestern frontier, and chronicles his rise to the Presidency and the highlights of his tenure. Reissue.
Book Synopsis Lincoln at Gettysburg by : Garry Wills
Download or read book Lincoln at Gettysburg written by Garry Wills and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.
Book Synopsis Rise to Greatness by : David Von Drehle
Download or read book Rise to Greatness written by David Von Drehle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Von Drehle has chosen a critical year ('the most eventful year in American history' and the year Lincoln rose to greatness), done his homework, and written a spirited account."N"Publishers Weekly."
Book Synopsis Loyalty and Betrayal by : Lincoln Lee
Download or read book Loyalty and Betrayal written by Lincoln Lee and published by . This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chasing Lincoln's Killer by : James L. Swanson
Download or read book Chasing Lincoln's Killer written by James L. Swanson and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author James Swanson delivers a riveting account of the chase for Abraham Lincoln's assassin. Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia.
Download or read book Teflon written by Lincoln Lee and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleofis Jackson a.k.a. ?Teflon the Untouchable? is a young hood-rich hustler that the FED's have not been able to make murder-charges stick. Teflon is ruthless and murder is his calling-card -- but it doesn't detour a steady stream of raw ghetto-girls all dying to become his ride-or-die chick. When Teflon forms his own crew, ?The Capone Gang?, and sets out to control the street, his crew's loyalty and honor gets tested. Everyone knows that if you fail Teflon's test, you?ll never see tomorrow's daylight. When Teflon makes the cardinal mistake of starting to use some of his own product ? he begins to become paranoid -- about everyone and everything! Adding gas to an already red-hot fire, a long-kept secret of Teflon's is found-out! Teflon is then threatened, which is the last thing that anyone should do! Feeling like his hand is forced, Teflon resorts to planning a set-up and murders. But his new drug-habit is scratching and denting the hell-out of his normally sound and roc
Book Synopsis The Lincolns in the White House by : Jerrold M. Packard
Download or read book The Lincolns in the White House written by Jerrold M. Packard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how divisions within the Lincoln family mirrored the struggles of the nation, describing First Lady Mary Lincoln's mental collapse in the wake of fierce distrust for her southern heritage and the plights of the sons.
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism by : John Burt
Download or read book Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism written by John Burt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice In 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than slavery in those debates. In Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism, John Burt contends that the very legitimacy of democratic governance was on the line. In a United States stubbornly divided over ethical issues, the overarching question posed by the Lincoln-Douglas debates has not lost its urgency: Can a liberal political system be used to mediate moral disputes? And if it cannot, is violence inevitable? “John Burt has written a work that every serious student of Lincoln will have to read...Burt refracts Lincoln through the philosophy of Kant, Rawls and contemporary liberal political theory. His is very much a Lincoln for our time.” —Steven B. Smith, New York Times Book Review “I'm making space on my overstuffed shelves for Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism. This is a book I expect to be picking up and thumbing through for years to come.” —Jim Cullen, History News Network “Burt treats the [Lincoln-Douglas] debates as being far more significant than an election contest between two candidates. The debates represent profound statements of political philosophy and speak to the continuing challenges the U.S. faces in resolving divisive moral conflicts.” —E. C. Sands, Choice
