- Politics and government, Sources, Political and social views, Emancipation
Presents more than one hundred writings by Abraham Lincoln spanning his political career, from 1832 to 1865, each with brief introductions providing context and showing how the statesman's views on pertinent issues changed over the years.
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- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Eric Foner
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 426
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Co., Oxford University Press, W.W. Norton
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780195151060
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Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943) is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and historiography. Foner has published several books on the Reconstruction period.
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