Lincoln's Enduring Legacy : Perspectives from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment.
Lincoln's Enduring Legacy : Perspectives from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment.
- Lexington Books 2011.
- 1 online resource (273)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface; Part I: Introduction; 1 What Would Lincoln Do?; Part II: Lincoln's Legacy with Great Thinkers and Leaders; 2 Tolstoy's Lincoln; 3 Mill and Lincoln on Liberty; 4 Theodore Roosevelt and the Heirs of Abraham Lincoln; 5 Woodrow Wilson and Lincoln's Bridge to the World; 6 Lincoln's Impact on Martin Luther King Jr.; 7 Lincoln and the Idea of a Democratic Peace; Part III: Lincoln's Legacy and American Memory; 8 African American Memory and the Great Emancipator; 9 Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and Herbert Croly's America; 10 Lincoln's Relationship with Gentility in America. 11 Lincoln's Use of Religion and Morality12 Shaping American Foreign Policy: Comparing Lincoln/Seward and Nixon/Kissinger; 13 Lincoln as Father: Dealing with Tragedy in the White House; Part IV: Epilogue; 14 Abraham Lincoln's Enduring Legacy: Bicentennial Reflections; Index; About the Contributors.
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. Thebook 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.
English.
9780739149898 073914989X 9780739149911 0739149911 9786613084675 6613084670
308467 MIL
2021697306
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Influence.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Political and social views.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
1800-1899
Political leadership--History--United States--19th century.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Political and social views.
Political leadership.
Politics and government.
Presidents.
United States--Politics and government--Philosophy.
États-Unis--Politique et gouvernement--Philosophie.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
E457
973.7092
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface; Part I: Introduction; 1 What Would Lincoln Do?; Part II: Lincoln's Legacy with Great Thinkers and Leaders; 2 Tolstoy's Lincoln; 3 Mill and Lincoln on Liberty; 4 Theodore Roosevelt and the Heirs of Abraham Lincoln; 5 Woodrow Wilson and Lincoln's Bridge to the World; 6 Lincoln's Impact on Martin Luther King Jr.; 7 Lincoln and the Idea of a Democratic Peace; Part III: Lincoln's Legacy and American Memory; 8 African American Memory and the Great Emancipator; 9 Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and Herbert Croly's America; 10 Lincoln's Relationship with Gentility in America. 11 Lincoln's Use of Religion and Morality12 Shaping American Foreign Policy: Comparing Lincoln/Seward and Nixon/Kissinger; 13 Lincoln as Father: Dealing with Tragedy in the White House; Part IV: Epilogue; 14 Abraham Lincoln's Enduring Legacy: Bicentennial Reflections; Index; About the Contributors.
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. Thebook 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.
English.
9780739149898 073914989X 9780739149911 0739149911 9786613084675 6613084670
308467 MIL
2021697306
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Influence.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Political and social views.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
1800-1899
Political leadership--History--United States--19th century.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Political and social views.
Political leadership.
Politics and government.
Presidents.
United States--Politics and government--Philosophy.
États-Unis--Politique et gouvernement--Philosophie.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
E457
973.7092