We Cannot Escape History
Subtitle: LINCOLN AND THE LAST BEST HOPE OF EARTH
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780252021909
Subjects: World history; U.S. President; History - General History; History: American; USA; United States - Civil War; History / United States / 19th Century; Lincoln, Abraham; 1809-1865; 1849-1861; 1861-1865; Lincoln, Abraham,; Politics and government; United States
First sentence: Nearly all twentieth-century presidents have turned to history, especially to the records of their predecessors, to find justification for the policies they have wished to pursue.