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When Lincoln Reconsidered was first published it ushered in the process of rethinking the Civil War that continues to this day. In the third edition, David provides two important new essays, on Lincoln’s patchy education—which we find was more extensive than even the great man realized—and on Lincoln’s complex and conflicted relationship to the rule of law.
First published in 1956 and revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Lincoln Reconsidered is a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship. In a dozen eloquent, witty, and incisive essays, the author of the definitive biography of Abraham Lincoln offers a fresh perspective on topics previously shrouded in myth and hagiography and brings the president's tough-mindedness, strategic acumen, and.
Getting right with Lincoln --The folklore Lincoln --Toward a reconsideration of abolitionists --An excess of democracy: the American Civil War and the social process --Education defective: Lincoln's preparation for greatness --Herndon and Mary Lincoln --Refighting the Civil War --The Radicals and Lincoln --Abraham Lincoln and the American pragmatic tradition --A Whig in the White House.
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Get this from a library! Lincoln reconsidered; essays on the Civil War era. (David Herbert Donald) -- Discusses some of the basic issues concerning the Civil War.