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.