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Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

By: Allen C. Guelzo
Narrated by: Edward Lewis
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This unique intellectual portrait explores the role of ideas in Lincoln’s life. Guelzo presents Lincoln as a serious thinker deeply involved in the problems of 19th-century thought, including those of classical liberalism, the Lockean Enlightenment, Victorian unbelief, and Calvinist spirituality. Lincoln emerges as a philosophical man who appropriates certain religious values without adhering to any religion, who insists on the pre-eminence of self-interest in spite of becoming the Great Emancipator, and who appeals to natural law and natural theology in politics while remaining a classical 19th-century liberal in principle. Based on primary materials from a wide variety of archives, this insightful work sheds light on the intellectual conflicts that led to civil war and that still influence today’s “culture wars.”

©1999 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Americas Historical Politicians Politics & Activism Presidents & Heads of State United States

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“Out of the countless volumes written about our 16th president, [this] ranks quite simply among the best.” ( Wall Street Journal)
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A well researched book that is actually painful to listen to , I have many audible books in my library , this won’t be one of tho

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