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Lincoln's virtues : an ethical biography / William Lee Miller.
LIBRA E457.2 .M643 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, William Lee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Ethics.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Politics and government.
- Ethics.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1861-1865--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 515 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- Traces Abraham Lincoln's moral and intellectual development in the context of his times and in contrast with the leading issues of the day, including slavery.
- Contents:
- ch. 1. Who is this fellow? He is smarter than he looks
- ch. 2. Noble rage
- ch. 3. He will be good : but God knows when
- ch. 4. I want in all cases to do right
- ch. 5. Was this man a politician?
- ch. 6. Rising public man
- ch. 7. Another president, another war
- ch. 8. Politics and morals
- ch. 9. Thunderstruck in Illinois
- ch. 10. I shall try to show that it is wrong
- ch. 11. Our duty as we understand it
- ch. 12. The worthy work of party-building
- ch. 13. Not so much greater than the rest of us
- ch. 14. Lincoln's defense of our common humanity
- ch. 15. Such an impression
- ch. 16. The man with the blue umbrella
- ch. 17. Let grass grow where it may.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-492) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375701737
- 9780375701733
- OCLC:
- 51571412
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