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Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum
Contributor(s): Simon, John Y. (Editor), Holzer, Harold (Author), Vogel, Dawn (Author)
ISBN: 0823227375     ISBN-13: 9780823227372
Publisher: Fordham University Press
OUR PRICE:   $33.25  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
Dewey: 973.709
Series: Lincoln Forum Books
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.7" (1.00 lbs) 398 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Civil War
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
From his cabinet's politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year historians find something new and important to say about the greatest of our Presidents.

Lincoln Revisited is a masterly guide to what's new and what's noteworthy in this unfolding story-a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time. Brought together by The Lincoln Forum, they tackle uncharted territory and emerging questions; they also take a new look at established debates-including those about their own landmark works.

Here, these well-known historians revisit key chapters in Lincoln's legacy-from Matthew Pinsker on Lincoln's private life and Jean Baker on religion and the Lincoln marriage to Geoffrey Perret on Lincoln as leader and Frank J. Williams on Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime.

The eighteen original essays explore every corner of Lincoln's world-religion and politics, slavery and sovereignty, presidential leadership and the rule of law, the Second Inaugural Address and the assassination.

In his 1947 classic, Lincoln Reconsidered, David Herbert Donald confronted the Lincoln myth. Today, the scholars in Lincoln Revisited give a new generation of students, scholars, and citizens the perspectives vital for understanding the constantly reinterpreted genius of Abraham Lincoln.

Contributor Bio(s): Simon, John Y.: - John Y. Simon was Professor of History at Southern Illinois University.Holzer, Harold: - Harold Holzer is Roger Hertog Fellow at the New-York Historical Society and one of the nation's leading authorities on Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He is chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and has written, co-written, or edited forty-seven books, most recently Lincoln and the Power of the Press.Vogel, Dawn: - Dawn Vogel is an editor of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.