| Lincoln's America: 1809 - 1865 Contributor(s): Fornieri, Joseph R. (Editor), Gabbard, Sara Vaughn (Editor), Belz, Herman (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0809335816 ISBN-13: 9780809335817 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press OUR PRICE: $22.28 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Essays - History | United States - 19th Century - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
| Dewey: 973.709 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.79 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To fully understand and appreciate Abraham Lincoln's legacy, it is important to examine the society that influenced the life, character, and leadership of the man who would become the Great Emancipator. Editors Joseph R. Fornieri and Sara Vaughn Gabbard have done just that in" Lincoln's America: 1809-1865," a collection of new and original essays by ten eminent historians that place Lincoln within his nineteenth-century cultural context.Among the topics explored in" Lincoln's America "are religion, education, middle-class family life, the antislavery movement, politics, and law. Of particular interest are the transition of American intellectual and philosophical thought from the Enlightenment to Romanticism and the influence of this evolution on Lincoln's own ideas.By examining aspects of Lincoln's lifehis personal piety in comparison with the beliefs of his contemporaries, his success in self-schooling when frontier youths had limited opportunities for a formal education, his marriage and home life in Springfield, and his legal careerin light of broader cultural contexts such as the development of democracy, the growth of visual arts, the question of slaves as property, and French visitor Alexis de Tocqueville's observations on America, the contributors delve into the mythical Lincoln of folklore and discover a developing political mind and a changing nation.As" Lincoln's America" shows, the sociopolitical culture of nineteenth-century America was instrumental in shaping Lincoln's character and leadership. The essays in this volume paint a vivid picture of a young nation and its sixteenth president, arguably its greatest leader." |
Contributor Bio(s): Guelzo, Allen C.: - Allen C. Guelzo, the author of Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America, is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College. He is a three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize, for Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (2000), Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (2005), and Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013), the last of which was a New York Times best seller. |