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