Judging Lincoln

Williams, Frank J.

Judging Lincoln [electronic resource] / Frank J. Williams ; with a foreword by Harold Holzer ; and an epilogue by John Y. Simon. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2002. - xxiii, 202 p. : ill., port.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.


Political leadership--History--United States--19th century.
Character.


Electronic books.

E457.2 / .W69 2002

973.7/092 B