The Lincoln persuasion : remaking American liberalism /
In this, his last work, J. David Greenstone provides an important new analysis of American liberalism and of Lincoln's unique contribution to the nation's political life. Greenstone addresses Louis Hartz's well-known claim that a tradition of liberal consensus has characterized Americ...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1993] |
| Series: | Princeton studies in American politics.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- The Lincoln myth reconsidered
- American political culture : liberal consensus or liberal polarity?
- Adams and Jefferson : a shared liberalism
- Adams, Jefferson, and the slavery paradox
- William Leggett : process, utility, and laissez-faire
- Stephen A. Douglas and popular sovereignty
- Martin Van Buren's humanist liberal theory of party
- John Quincy Adams
- Lincoln and the North's commitment to liberty and union
- Lincoln's political humanitarianism : moral reform and the covenant tradition.