Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (American Presidency (Univ of Kansas Hardcover))
Description
In this study, Paludan offers us Lincoln in the round - a complex, even contradictory personality who found greatness without seeking it and who felt deeply troubled about what he perceived as his failings as a President and person. Opinion has been divided about the "real" Lincoln - a conservative, a liberal, a great emancipator, a Union preservationist at all cost - but Paludan's Lincoln is both a constitutionalist and a liberal egalitarian who ultimately saw his efforts to preserve the Union and free the slaves as inseparably linked. Lincoln, Paludan contends, proved himse...
ISBN(s)
0700606718, 9780700606719
