Title: Lincoln's enduring legacy : perspectives from great thinkers, great leaders, and the American experiment /
Authors: Watson, Robert P., 1962-; Pedersen, William D.; Williams, Frank J.
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, Influence.; Lincoln, Abraham, Political and social views.; Political leadership United States History; Presidents United States Biography; United States Politics and government Philosophy.
Abstract: "Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds have influenced the pursuit of justice and freedom and the practice of democracy in the century and a half since he governed. Lincoln, as an abolitionist, the architect of Reconstruction, an avowed Unionist, a wordsmith and rhetorician, his age's foremost prophet for democracy, and America's greatest president remains an iconic image in American memory." -- Publisher's description.
Contents: What would Lincoln do? / Robert P. Watson -- Tolstoy on Lincoln / Norman W. Provizer -- Mill and Lincoln on liberty / David Nordquest -- Theodore Roosevelt and the heirs of Abraham Lincoln / James MacDonald -- Woodrow Wilson and Lincoln's bridge to the world / Mary Elizabeth Stockwell -- Lincoln's impact on Martin Luther King Jr. / David Mass -- Lincoln and the idea of a democratic peace / Gordon Henderson -- African American memory and the Great Emancipator / John Barr -- Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and Herbert Croly's America / Richard Striner -- Lincoln's relationship with gentility in America / David Demaree -- Lincoln's use of religion and morality / Danny Adkison -- Shaping American foreign policy : comparing Lincoln/Seward and Nixon/Kissinger / Byron Daynes and Hyrum Salmond -- Lincoln as father : dealing with tragedy in the White House / Robert P. Watson and Richard M. Yon -- Reflections on Lincoln's enduring legacy : bicentennial reflections / Frank J. Williams.