The age of Lincoln
By: Orville Vernon Burton.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780809095131
Description: "In a remarkable reappraisal of Lincoln, distinguished historian Burton shows how the Kentucky-born president's Southernness empowered him to conduct a civil war that redefined freedom as a personal right protected by the rule of law. In the violent decades that followed, the extent of that freedom would be contested by racism and unregulated capitalism, but not its central place in what defined the country"--From publisher description.