Lincoln Revisited (eBook)

New Insights from the Lincoln Forum

John Y. Simon (Herausgeber)

Harold Holzer, Dawn Vogel (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2007
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-2738-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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 cabinetGCOs politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year historians find something new and important to say about the greatest of our Presidents.Lincoln Revisited is a masterly guidePub to whatGs new and whatGs noteworthy in this unfolding storyGa brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time. Brought together by The Lincoln Forum, they tackle uncharted territory and emerging questions; they also take a new look at established debatesGincluding those about their own landmark works.Here, these well-known historians revisit key chapters in LincolnGs legacyGfrom Matthew Pinsker on LincolnGs private life and Jean Baker on religion and the Lincoln marriage to Geoffrey Perret on Lincoln as leader and Frank J. Williams on Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime.The eighteen original essays explore every corner of LincolnGs worldGreligion and politics, slavery and sovereignty, presidential leadership and the rule of law, the Second Inaugural Address and the assassination.In his 1947 classic, Lincoln Reconsidered, David Herbert Donald confronted the Lincoln myth. Today, the scholars in Lincoln Revisited give a new generation of students, scholars, and citizens the perspectives vital for understanding the constantly reinterpreted genius of Abraham Lincoln.

Autor

John Y. Simon (External Editor) John Y. Simon was Professor of History at Southern Illinois University.Harold Holzer (External Editor) Harold Holzer is Roger Hertog Fellow at the New-York Historical Society and one of the nation’s leading authorities on Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He is chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and has written, co-written, or edited forty-seven books, most recently Lincoln and the Power of the Press.Dawn Vogel (External Editor) Dawn Vogel is an editor of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2009
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-8232-2738-3 / 0823227383
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-2738-9 / 9780823227389