Description
Lincoln in Text and Context
Collected Essays
DON E. FEHRENBACHER
A well-known Lincoln scholar presents a collection of nineteen essays on Lincoln and the Civil War era that constitutes one of the most significant contributions to Lincoln literature in recent years.
Part I, "Years of Crisis," contains essays on such subjects as the Mexican War, Lincoln's Galena speech, the political uses of the post office, Lincoln's relations with the mayor of Chicago, his nomination and election as president, and how treatment of the causes of the Civil War has been affected by the quantitative methods of the "new political history."
Part 11, "The War Years," includes essays on Lincoln and the question of race, his attitude toward the Constitution, how he fits into the history of freedom, his reconstruction strategy and purpose as exemplified in Arkansas, how he coped emotionally with his great responsibilities, and the broad historical meaning of his death.
Part 111, "Images of Lincoln," considers his changing image in American historiography, the anti-Lincoln strain in American thought, how he is treated by practitioners of psychohistory and historical fiction, the most famous of all Lincoln forgeries, and the difficulties of determining what Lincoln actually said and what he meant by what he said.
Don E. Fehrenbacher is Coe Professor of History and American Studies Emeritus at Stanford University, and the author of several books on American history, including the Pulitzer Prize winning, The Dred Scott
Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1987 original publication from Stanford University Press (ISBN 0804713294).
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Stanford press, fehrenbacher, Lincoln, president, Mexican war, speeches, civil war, new political history, the war years, united states constitution, reconstruction, Lincoln forgeries, anti-lincoln 
