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Abraham Lincoln's statesmanship and the limits of liberal democracy / Jon D. Schaff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schaff, Jon D., 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Political leadership--United States--History.
- Political leadership.
- United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Schaff analyzes how Lincoln's political thought and presidential statesmanship illustrate the need for a limit to democratic excess. Decent government, he argues, demands a balance of competing political goods as well as the strong statesmanship Lincoln exemplified to maintain that equilibrium"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Lincoln and the architecture of democracy's soul
- Lincoln and the political virtues of prudence and moderation
- Lincoln and the defense of natural rights
- Lincoln's political economy in the American tradition
- The domestic Lincoln: presidential power and the Second American Revolution
- Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
- Whigs and Lincoln: a realignment reconsidered
- The domestic Lincoln and Congressional government.
- Notes:
- Significant revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Loyola University Chicago, 2002, titled The domestic Lincoln : presidential leadership, realignment and public policy.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-3738-X
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