Abraham Lincoln and the Virtues of War How Civil War Families Challenged and Transformed Our National Values
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Altersempfehlung
ab 7 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
20.07.2015
Verlag
Bloomsbury eBooks USSeitenzahl
208 (Printausgabe)
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798216041597
This volume is a completely new approach to Civil War history. Historians rightly regard Abraham Lincoln as a moral exemplar, a president who gave new life to the national values that defined America. While some previous studies attest to Lincoln's identification with family virtues, this is the first to link Lincoln's personal biography with actual histories of families at war. It analyzes the relationship that existed between Lincoln and these families and assesses the moral struggles that validated the families' decision for or against the conflict.
Written to be accessible to students and the general reader alike, the book examines Lincoln's presidency as measured against the stories of families, North and South, that struggled with his definition of Union virtues. It looks at Lincoln's compelling case for democratic values-among them, justice, patriotism, honor, and commitment-first stated in his 1861 speech before Independence Hall. The work also uses case studies to demonstrate how virtue, as practiced in families, illuminated, contested, adapted, and even transformed his concept, giving new meaning to the "virtues of war."
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