The age of Lincoln, Orville Vernon Burton
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- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Whitman College -- Memorial bookplates -- Class of 1938
- Geschichte 1830-1900
- Sezessionskrieg + Auswirkung
- Politischer Wandel
- Lincoln, Abraham -- Politische Ideen
- History
- Reconstruction
- Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh
- Geschichte 1800-1900
- Sezessionskrieg <1861-1865>
- 1800-1899
- USA
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- United States
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- USA -- Politik -- Geschichte 19. Jh
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The age of Lincoln, Orville Vernon Burton
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-400) and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
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portraitsplatesillustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The age of Lincoln
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
76262240
Responsibility statement
Orville Vernon Burton
Summary
"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
Table of contents
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
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