Lincoln Reconsidered
Essays on the Civil War Era: Third Edition, Revised and Updated
Donald, David Herbert
Publisher: Vintage, USA
Year First Published: 1956
Year Published: 2001
Pages: 210pp Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-72532-6
Library of Congress Number: E457.8D69 Dewey: 973.7--dc19
Resource Type: Book
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. Getting Right with Lincoln
2. The Folklore Lincoln
3. Toward a Reconsideration of Abolitionists
4. An Excess of Democracy: The American Civil War and the Social Process
5. Education Defective: Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness
6. Herndon and Mary Lincoln
7. Refighting the Civil War
8. The Radicals and Lincoln
9. Abraham Lincoln and the American Pragmatic Tradition
10. A Whig in the White House
11. Reverence for the Laws: Abraham Lincoln and the Founding Fathers
12. A. Lincoln, Politician
Bibliographical Essay
Index
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