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Lincoln revisited : new insights from the Lincoln Forum / edited by John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn Vogel.

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Publisher's description: In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet's politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about sto...

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Corporate Author: Lincoln Forum
Other Authors: Simon, John Y., Holzer, Harold, Vogel, Dawn
Other title:At head of title: Lincoln Forum.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Political and social views.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Military leadership.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Harold Holzer
  • Lincoln's political faith in the Peoria address / Joseph R. Fornieri
  • Lincoln's political religion and religious politics / Lucas E. Morel
  • Lincoln, Douglas, and popular sovereignty : the Mormon dimension / John Y. Simon
  • The campaign of 1860 : Cooper Union, Mathew Brady, and the campaign of words and images / Harold Holzer
  • "I see the president" : Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home / Matthew Pinsker
  • Varieties of religious experience : Abraham and Mary Lincoln / Jean Baker
  • The poet and the president : Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman / Daniel Mark Epstein
  • 1862--a year of decision for President Lincoln and General Halleck / John F. Marszalek
  • "I felt it to be my duty to refuse" : the president and the slave trader / William Lee Miller
  • Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant / Jean Edward Smith
  • Motivating men : Lincoln, Grant, MacArthur, and Kennedy / Geoffrey Perret
  • Lincoln and his admirals / Craig L. Symonds
  • After emancipation : Abraham Lincoln's black dream / Michael Vorenberg
  • The second inaugural address : the spoken words / Ronald C. White, Jr.
  • Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties : then and now / Frank J. Williams
  • After Lincoln's reelection : foreign complications / William C. Harris
  • Henry Adams on Lincoln / Garry Wills
  • Lincoln's assassination and John Wilkes Booth's Confederate connection / Edward Steers, Jr.

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