The age of Lincoln /
Burton, Orville Vernon.
The age of Lincoln / Orville Vernon Burton. - 1st ed. - New York : Hill and Wang, 2007. - 420 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-400) and index.
Kindred spirits and double-minded men -- "Gale of simple freedom" -- To carry out the Lord's vengeance -- Washed in the blood -- "Southerner by birth" -- "The coming of the Lord" -- "A giant holocaust of death" -- "I want you to come home" -- "To square accounts" -- The promised land -- "The safeguard of the Republic" -- "A dead radical is very harmless" -- The new colossus -- A cross of gold.
"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"--Publisher description.
9780809095131 0809095130 9780809023851 0809023857
VM454944
2006037960
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham--Politische Ideen.
Whitman College--Memorial bookplates--Class of 1938.
American Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
Geschichte 1800-1900
Geschichte 1830-1900
1800-1899
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Sezessionskrieg--Auswirkung.
Politischer Wandel.
Sezessionskrieg <1861-1865>
Reconstruction.
United States--History--19th century.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States.
USA--Geschichte 19. Jh.
USA--Politik--Geschichte 19. Jh.
USA.
USA.
History.
E415.7 / .B87 2007
973.5
The age of Lincoln / Orville Vernon Burton. - 1st ed. - New York : Hill and Wang, 2007. - 420 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-400) and index.
Kindred spirits and double-minded men -- "Gale of simple freedom" -- To carry out the Lord's vengeance -- Washed in the blood -- "Southerner by birth" -- "The coming of the Lord" -- "A giant holocaust of death" -- "I want you to come home" -- "To square accounts" -- The promised land -- "The safeguard of the Republic" -- "A dead radical is very harmless" -- The new colossus -- A cross of gold.
"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"--Publisher description.
9780809095131 0809095130 9780809023851 0809023857
VM454944
2006037960
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham--Politische Ideen.
Whitman College--Memorial bookplates--Class of 1938.
American Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
Geschichte 1800-1900
Geschichte 1830-1900
1800-1899
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Sezessionskrieg--Auswirkung.
Politischer Wandel.
Sezessionskrieg <1861-1865>
Reconstruction.
United States--History--19th century.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States.
USA--Geschichte 19. Jh.
USA--Politik--Geschichte 19. Jh.
USA.
USA.
History.
E415.7 / .B87 2007
973.5