The age of Lincoln / Orville Vernon Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Orville Vernon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

United States--History--19th century.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Physical Description:

420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hill and Wang, 2007.

Summary:

Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, Burton has written a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. The enduring legacy of the age was not abolishing slavery but inscribing personal liberty into the nations aspirations.

Contents:

Kindred spirits and double-minded men

"Gale of simple freedom"

To carry out the Lord's vengeance

Washed in the blood

"Southerner by birth"

"The coming of the Lord"

"A giant holocaust of death"

"I want you to come home"

"To square accounts"

The promised land

"The safeguard of the Republic"

"A dead radical is very harmless"

The new colossus

A cross of gold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-400) and index.

ISBN:

9780809095131

0809095130

OCLC:

76262240

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