The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American IconGabor Boritt Oxford University Press, 2001 M02 8 - 352 pages In The Lincoln Enigma, Gabor Boritt invites renowned Lincoln scholars, and rising new voices, to take a look at much-debated aspects of Lincoln's life--including his possible gay relationships, his plan to send blacks back to Africa, and his high-handed treatment of the Constitution. Boritt explores Lincoln's proposals that looked to a lily-white America. Jean Baker marvels at Lincoln's loves and marriage. David Herbert Donald compares Lincoln and Jefferson Davis as Commanders-in-Chief. Douglas Wilson shows us the young Lincoln--not the strong leader of popular history, but a man who struggles to find his purpose. Gerald Prokopowicz searches for the military leader, William C. Harris for the peacemaker, and Robert Bruce meditates on Lincoln and death. In a final section Boritt and Harold Holzer offer a fascinating portfolio of Lincoln images in modern art. Acute and thought-provoking in their observations, this all-star cast of historians--including two Pulitzer and three Lincoln Prize winners--questions our assumptions of Lincoln, and provides a new vitality to our ongoing reflections on his life and legacy. |
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... honored place in the group. This book is dedicated to them. Student assistants, all Gettysburg College undergraduates, make the CWI offices a lively place and their help deserves recognition. At the 2000 session one and all excelled ...
... honored place in the group. This book is dedicated to them. Student assistants, all Gettysburg College undergraduates, make the CWI offices a lively place and their help deserves recognition. At the 2000 session one and all excelled ...
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... honor the mass murderer who slew 300,000 southern men, women and children? That precursor of Lenin, Hitler, and Stalin? Are you out of your mind?” And there was praise for the black journalist who labored mightily to turn the legend of ...
... honor the mass murderer who slew 300,000 southern men, women and children? That precursor of Lenin, Hitler, and Stalin? Are you out of your mind?” And there was praise for the black journalist who labored mightily to turn the legend of ...
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... Honor's Voice, but here I would like to explore the first of these further—the question of identity—and, without attempting to follow or imitate Erikson, to try to say some more about it. I want to begin by addressing what I believe is ...
... Honor's Voice, but here I would like to explore the first of these further—the question of identity—and, without attempting to follow or imitate Erikson, to try to say some more about it. I want to begin by addressing what I believe is ...
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Contents
A Marriage | |
Military Fantasies | |
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis as Commanders in Chief | |
The Constitution and Liberty | |
Toward Appomattox Toward Unconditional Surrender? | |
The Riddle of Death | |
Lincoln in Modern | |
A Potpourri | |
Notes | |
A Bibliography | |
Contributors | |
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