Lincoln's Enduring Legacy
Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment
Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, State & Local, Civil War Period (1850-1877)
| Author: | Danny Adkison, John Barr, Byron Daynes, David Demaree, Gordon Henderson, David Mass, David Nordquest, Norman W. Provizer, Hyrum Salmond, Mary Elizabeth Stockwell, Richard Striner, Richard M. Yon, Robert P. Watson, Lynn University; author of Affairs of State, The Presidents’ Wives, and America’s First Crisis, James MacDonald | ISBN: | 9780739149911 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | December 16, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Danny Adkison, John Barr, Byron Daynes, David Demaree, Gordon Henderson, David Mass, David Nordquest, Norman W. Provizer, Hyrum Salmond, Mary Elizabeth Stockwell, Richard Striner, Richard M. Yon, Robert P. Watson, Lynn University; author of Affairs of State, The Presidents’ Wives, and America’s First Crisis, James MacDonald |
| ISBN: | 9780739149911 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | December 16, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
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. The book 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.
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. The book 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.
