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Lincoln Paperback - 2003

by Richard Carwardine


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Interest in the American Civil War and the role of Abraham Lincoln has grown dramatically in the last decade. Leader of the anti-slavery Republican coalition and the wartime Union, he has become a model of a particular kind of democratic politician who led rather than followed. Richard J. Carwardine examines Lincoln's rise to power and his achievements as US president. The book explores the wider sources of Lincoln's authority and skills in embracing a broad range of elements within the Republican party. In particular, it looks at Lincoln's shrewd relationship with evangelical Protestantism. His ability to harness and channel the power of the Protestant constituency was key to his winning the presidency and rallying support behind his national and emancipatory vision.

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"Rarely does a biography of a popular historical figure offer all the qualities that make for a good read: lively writing, a fresh perspective, significant insight, and a compelling narrative. Carwardine does all this and more ... There is simply no other Lincoln biography like it."

-- "Tom Schwartz, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library"
" The publication of this beautifully written book, which makes use of the earliest evidence and the latest insights, marks a high point in a decade that has been particularly rich in Lincoln scholarship. No one seriously interested in Lincoln can afford to ignore Carwardine's judicious work.""

-- Daniel Walker Howe, Oxford University and The Huntington Library"

"The Atlantic can serve as a wonderful clarifying prism. Oxford don Richard Carwardine looks across it and paints a remarkable picture of the greatest of the Americans who fused the secular and the sacred.""

-- Gabor S. Boritt, Director, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College"

As a staunch defender of national unity, a successful war-leader, and the emancipator of the slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays compelling claim to being the greatest of America's presidents.

This fresh political biography examines Lincoln both as a rising politician and as president, and focuses on the sources of his authority and achievement. It reveals his political talents and serious moral purpose but shows, too, how in pursuing office he depended on public opinion and the machinery of party. As war leader, he saw the limits as well as the possibilities of power, and looked beyond the government to other engines of support, including the churches, the humanitarian agencies and the volunteerUnion army.

Carwardine's study places Lincoln firmly within the changing context of his time, and shows his talent for reading and reaching many strands of opinion as he fashioned a national purpose. Emancipation became an end in itself, toward which God's own plan appeared to be driving him.

Richard J. Carwardine is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University. His publications include "Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America "(Yale University Press, 1993).

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  • Title Lincoln
  • Author Richard Carwardine
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 376
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, New York, New York
  • Date 2003-05-06
  • ISBN 9780582032798 / 0582032792
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.16 x 0.82 in (21.34 x 13.11 x 2.08 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History - Civil War,, Presidents - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004351220
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Books & Culture, 07/01/2003, Page 21
  • Choice, 03/01/2004, Page 1354
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