TY - BOOK AU - Burton,Orville Vernon TI - The age of Lincoln SN - 9780809095131 AV - E415.7 .B87 2007 U1 - 973.5 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Hill and Wang KW - Lincoln, Abraham, KW - Lincoln, Abraham KW - Whitman College KW - Memorial bookplates KW - Class of 1938 KW - American Civil War (1861-1865) KW - fast KW - Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877) KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) KW - Sezessionskrieg KW - Auswirkung KW - idsbb KW - Politischer Wandel KW - idszbz KW - Sezessionskrieg <1861-1865> KW - swd KW - Reconstruction KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - USA KW - Geschichte 19. Jh KW - Politik N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0739/2006037960-s.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip074/2006037960.html UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017725266&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA UR - http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz275964140inh.htm UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25083 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2006037960-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2006037960-d.html UR - Table of contents only UR - Contributor biographical information UR - Publisher description UR - Sample text UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip074/2006037960.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2006037960-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2006037960-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0739/2006037960-s.html UR - http://books.google.com/books?isbn=9780809095131 ER -