Screen LibraryThe best American history essays on Lincoln
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xvii, 252 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0230609155 9780230609150 0230609147 9780230609143 |
| Index Number: | K837 |
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K837.127 K712.43 |
| Call Number: | K712.43/B561 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Abraham Lincoln and the self-made myth / Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln / Edmund Wilson -- Naturally anti-slavery : Lincoln, race, and the complexity of American liberty / James Oliver Horton -- A strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy / David Herbert Donald -- Mary and Abraham : a marriage / Jean H. Baker -- The master politician / Richard N. Current -- The origins and purpose of Lincoln's "house-divided" speech / Don E. Fehrenbacher -- Why the Republicans rejected both compromise and secession / David M. Potter -- The Emancipation Proclamation : the decision and the writing / John Hope Franklin -- Lincoln and the strategy of unconditional surrender / James M. McPherson -- Lincoln and the Constitution / Mark E. Neely, Jr. |