Lind, Michael. What Lincoln believed; the values and convictions of America's greatest president.LIND, Michael. What Lincoln believed; the values and convictions of America's greatest president. Random House, Anchor. 358p. notes. index. c2004. 1-4000-3073-0. $14.95. A This is an important book, since Lincoln's values and convictions have been variously interpreted by subsequent generations of commentators. The author has written a number of books of fiction, nonfiction non·fic·tion n. 1. Prose works other than fiction: I've read her novels but not her nonfiction. 2. The category of literature consisting of works of this kind. , and poetry. His nonfiction titles include Vietnam, Hamilton's Republic, The Next American Nation, and Up from Conservatism. Perhaps it is best to say that Lind, though not an established Lincoln scholar, has provided a scholarly work on the subject, one that makes use of a wide repertoire Repertoire may mean Repertory but may also refer to:
Synthesis is combined with a fresh approach, woven A woven is a cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the Bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic. Woven cloth usually frays at the edges, unless measures are taken to counter this, such as the use of pinking shears or hemming. together with a polished writing style that frequently includes memorable sentences, such as the one that begins this book: "In 1863 the democratic republic as a form of government was rare--and in danger of extinction extinction, in biology, disappearance of species of living organisms. Extinction occurs as a result of changed conditions to which the species is not suited. ." The author's view is that Lincoln saved the 18th century's greatest legacy to the 19th century, the idea of a universal vision of democracy and human rights. Some of Lincoln's views evolved, some contained paradox paradox, statement that appears self-contradictory but actually has a basis in truth, e.g., Oscar Wilde's "Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. , but the argument that Lincoln saved this vision (as opposed to more limited versions, including that of Confederate racists) sustains this book and its polished prose. Chapter titles include "Abraham Lincoln: The Myth and the Man," "'All-Conquering Mind': The Education of Abraham Lincoln," "An Old-Line Henry Clay Whig," "The Slave Power," "Lincoln and the Union," "Race and Restoration," "Lincoln's America: The Rise and Fall of the Second Republic," and "The Great Democrat: Abraham Lincoln and the Meaning of the Civil War." Lincoln remains among the small number of commanding figures in US history that YAs need to be introduced to in depth. This book helps to maintain this continuous goal of our national education. Prof. John Rosser, Boston College Boston College, main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and business administration, the graduate school, and schools of nursing , Chestnut Hill Chestnut Hill may refer to: In geography:
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