02137nam a22003018a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200245009600224264005200320300005900372336002600431337002600457338003600483490005600519500007300575520098100648700004301629776003501672830005701707856007101764CR9781139034784UkCbUP20180107143416.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||110301s2012||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139034784 (ebook)  z9780521897280 (hardback)  z9780521722261 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aLincoln :bPolitical Writings and Speeches / [electronic resource]cEdited by Terence Ball. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2012.  a1 online resource (303 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aCambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aAbraham Lincoln occupies a unique place in the American pantheon. Symbol, sage, myth and martyr, he is an American icon – Honest Abe and The Great Emancipator, a Janus-faced demigod sculpted in marble. But this is the post-assassination Lincoln. During his lifetime Lincoln elicited very different reactions. The writings and speeches presented in this scholarly edition illuminate Lincoln as a political thinker in the context of his own time and political situation. Opening with a concise yet rich introduction, the texts that follow are complete and carefully edited, with extensive annotation and footnotes to provide a clearer insight into Lincoln the man, the politician and political thinker. His views on race and slavery, on secession and civil war and on the contradiction (as his saw it) between the Declaration of Independence ('all men are created equal') and the original Constitution (which condones slavery) are laid out in Lincoln's own well-crafted words.1 aBall, Terence,eeditor of compilation.08iPrint version: z9780521897280 0aCambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought.40uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139034784zCambridge Books Online