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Description

Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds have influenced the pursuit of justice and freedom and the practice of democracy in the century and a half since he governed. Lincoln, as an abolitionist, the architect of Reconstruction, an avowed Unionist, a wordsmith and rhetorician, his age's foremost prophet for democracy, and America's greatest president remains an iconic image in American memory.

Table of Contents

1 Preface
2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Lincoln, Leadership, and Legacy
Part 4 Lincoln's Legacy with Great Thinkers and Leaders
5 Overview
Chapter 6 Chapter 2. Tolstoy on Lincoln
Chapter 7 Chapter 3. Mill and Lincoln on Liberty
Chapter 8 Chapter 4. Theodore Roosevelt and the Heirs of Lincoln
Chapter 9 Chapter 5. Woodrow Wilson and Lincoln's Bridge to the World
Chapter 10 Chapter 6. Lincoln's Impact on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chapter 11 Chapter 7. Lincoln and the Idea of a Democratic Peace
Part 12 Lincoln's Legacy and American Memory
13 Overview
Chapter 14 Chapter 8. African-American Memory and the Great Emancipator
Chapter 15 Chapter 9. Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and Herbert Croly's America
Chapter 16 Chapter 10. Lincoln's Relationship with Gentility in America
Chapter 17 Chapter 11. Lincoln's Use of Religion and Morality
Chapter 18 Chapter 12. Shaping American Foreign Policy: Comparing Lincoln/Seward and Nixon/Kissinger
Chapter 19 Chapter 13. Lincoln as Father: Dealing with Tragedy in the White House
20 Epilogue
Chapter 21 Chapter 14. Reflections on Lincoln's Enduring Legacy

Product details

Published Dec 16 2010
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9780739149898
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

William D. Pederson

Anthology Editor

Frank J. Williams

Anthology Editor

Robert P. Watson

Contributor

Danny Adkison

Contributor

John Barr

Contributor

Byron Daynes

Contributor

David Demaree

Contributor

James MacDonald

Contributor

David Mass

Contributor

David Nordquest

Contributor

Hyrum Salmond

Contributor

Richard Striner

Contributor

Richard M. Yon

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