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Judging Lincoln [electronic resource] / Frank J. Williams ; with a foreword by Harold Holzer ; and an epilogue by John Y. Simon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Frank J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political leadership--United States--History--19th century.
- Political leadership.
- Character.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Judging Lincoln collects nine of the most insightful essays on the topic of the sixteenth president written by Frank J. Williams, chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and one of the nation's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Abraham Lincoln, Our Ever-Present Contemporary 2. "A Matter of Profound Wonder": The Women in Lincoln's Life 17 3. Abraham Lincoln: Commander in Chief or "Attorney in Chief"? 34 4. Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties: The Corning Letter 60 5. Abraham Lincoln: The President and George Gordon Meade -An Evolving Commander in Chief 80 6. A View from the Field: The Soldiers' Vote for Abraham Lincoln's Reelection 93 7. The End of Slavery: Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment -What Did He Know and When He Did Know It? z28 8. Warrior, Communitarian, and Echo: The Leadership of Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt I46 9. Lincoln Collecting: What's Left? 163 Written with Mark E. Neely Jr.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-69706-7
- 9786613674029
- 0-8093-8925-8
- OCLC:
- 782951055
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