Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas
Guelzo, Allen C.
Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas [electronic resource] / Allen C. Guelzo ; with a foreword by Michael Lind. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009. - ix, 216 p. : port.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: what would Lincoln do? -- The unlikely intellectual biography of Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln and the doctrine of necessity -- Come-outers and community-men: Abraham Lincoln and the idea of community in nineteenth-century America -- Lincoln and natural law -- "Fiends ... facing Zionwards": Abraham Lincoln's reluctant embrace of the abolitionists -- Apples of gold in a picture of silver: Lincoln, the constitution, and liberty -- Understanding emancipation: Lincoln's proclamation and the end of slavery -- Defending emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling letter, August 1863 -- Prudence and the Proclamation -- Lincoln and the "war powers" of the Presidency.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780809386376 (electronic bk.)
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Political and social views.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Philosophy.
Slaves--Emancipation--United States.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.
United States--Politics and government--1845-1861.
United States--Politics and government--Philosophy.
United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865.
Electronic books.
E457.2 / .G875 2009
973.7092
Abraham Lincoln as a man of ideas [electronic resource] / Allen C. Guelzo ; with a foreword by Michael Lind. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009. - ix, 216 p. : port.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: what would Lincoln do? -- The unlikely intellectual biography of Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln and the doctrine of necessity -- Come-outers and community-men: Abraham Lincoln and the idea of community in nineteenth-century America -- Lincoln and natural law -- "Fiends ... facing Zionwards": Abraham Lincoln's reluctant embrace of the abolitionists -- Apples of gold in a picture of silver: Lincoln, the constitution, and liberty -- Understanding emancipation: Lincoln's proclamation and the end of slavery -- Defending emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling letter, August 1863 -- Prudence and the Proclamation -- Lincoln and the "war powers" of the Presidency.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780809386376 (electronic bk.)
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Political and social views.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Philosophy.
Slaves--Emancipation--United States.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.
United States--Politics and government--1845-1861.
United States--Politics and government--Philosophy.
United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865.
Electronic books.
E457.2 / .G875 2009
973.7092