Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, Paperback by Paludan, Phillip Shaw, Used Good ...

by Phillip Shaw Paludan

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Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, Paperback by Paludan, Phillip Shaw, ISBN 0700607455, ISBN-13 9780700607457, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US Abraham Lincoln's life and work have inspired mors than any other historical figure except Jesus and Shakespeare and attracted some of America's most renowned writers. But few know him as well as Phillip Paludan, one of our nation's foremost authorities on Lincoln and the Civil War. In this long-awaited study, Paludan offers us Lincoln in whole—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. The 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 himself a truly great leader in a highly combustible situation. True, he was no saint and could rule with political expediency and a heavy hand. But no other president faced such awesome challenges, and none showed better how the nation could meet them and move toward "a more perfect union." Filled with new insights and fresh interpretations, Paludan's study presents a genuinely new and compelling portrait of a president and nation at war. It will change the way we look at such

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Year: 1994
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780700607457
• Condition: Good

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