President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781400034161ISBN-10:1400034167UPC:9781400034161Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Presidents & Heads of State, United States, HistoricalBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:8.02 x 5.46 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SCRKAP356H
In his acclaimed book Lincoln's Virtues, William Lee Miller explored Abraham Lincoln's intellectual and moral development. Now he completes his "ethical biography," showing how the amiable and inexperienced backcountry politician was transformed by constitutional alchemy into an oath-bound head of state. Faced with a radical moral contradiction left by the nation's Founders, Lincoln struggled to find a balance between the universal ideals of Equality and Liberty and the monstrous injustice of human slavery. With wit and penetrating sensitivity, Miller brings together the great themes that have become Lincoln's legacy--preserving the United States of America while ending the odious institution that corrupted the nation's meaning--and illuminates his remarkable presidential combination: indomitable resolve and supreme magnanimity.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781400034161ISBN-10:1400034167UPC:9781400034161Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Presidents & Heads of State, United States, HistoricalBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:8.02 x 5.46 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SCRKAP356H
William Lee Miller has taught at Yale University, Smith College, Indiana University, and the University of Virginia, where he is currently Miller Center of Public Affairs Scholar in Ethics and Institutions. He has been an editor and writer on a political magazine, a speechwriter, and a three-term alderman. He is the author of numerous books. Arguing About Slavery won the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress.
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