The age of Lincoln / Orville Vernon Burton

Author: Burton, Orville Vernon
Published: New York : Hill and Wang, 2007.
Edition: 1st ed.
Physical Description: 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

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Contents

Prologue -- 1. Kindred spirits and double-minded men -- 2. "Gale of simple freedom" -- 3. To carry out the Lord's vengeance -- 4. Washed in the blood -- 5. "Southerner by birth" -- 6. "The coming of the Lord" -- 7. "A giant holocaust of death" -- 8. "I want you to come home" -- 9. "To square accounts" -- 10. The promised land -- 11. "The safeguard of the Republic" -- 12. "A dead radical is very harmless" -- 13. The new colossus -- 14. A cross of gold -- Bibliographical essay -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Summary

"In a remarkable reappraisal of Lincoln, distinguished historian Burton shows how the Kentucky-born president's Southernness empowered him to conduct a civil war that redefined freedom as a personal right protected by the rule of law. In the violent decades that followed, the extent of that freedom would be contested by racism and unregulated capitalism, but not its central place in what defined the country"--From publisher description.

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9780809095131 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0809095130 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-400) and index.

Source of Acquisition

Dubois copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20067.
Shenango Valley copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20078.
Delaware copy: Purchased in memory of Richard Semple by Janet and Roger Alwang; 20078.

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Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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