Lincoln's Legacy
Subtitle: Ethics and Politics
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: November 21, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780252032233
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Political science & theory; Practical & applied ethics; U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877); Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; The Americas; Essays; Presidents & Heads of State; United States - Civil War; Political Science / Essays; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; 1809-1865; Biography; Case studies; Influence; Lincoln, Abraham,; Political Ethics; Presidents; United States
Description: "The four essays in Lincoln's Legacy depict major problems that the sixteenth president navigated and what can be learned from how he did so. These four Lincoln scholars describe how Abraham Lincoln contended with questions of politics, law, constitutionalism, patronage, and democracy. These essays include an assessment of Lincoln's virtues in the presidency; the first study of Lincoln and patronage in more than a decade; a challenge to the cliche of Lincoln the democrat; and a study of habeas corpus, Lincoln, and state courts."--BOOK JACKET.