Age of Lincoln A History

Name: Age of Lincoln A History
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ISBN: 9780809023851

ISBN-10: 0809023857

ISBN-13: 9780809023851

Edition: 2008

Authors: Orville Vernon Burton, Orville Burton

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Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age’s most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most profound. The enduring legacy of the age of Lincoln was inscribing personal liberty into the nation’s millennial aspirations. nbsp; America has always perceived providence in its progress, but in the 1840s and 1850s pessimism accompanied marked extremism, as Millerites predicted the Second Coming, utopianists planned perfection, Southerners made slavery an inviolable honor, and Northerners conflated Manifest Destiny with free-market opportunity.…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 7/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English