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Fiery Trial Abraham Lincoln & American Slavery

by Eric Foner
Fiery Trial Abraham Lincoln & American Slavery

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ISBN13: 9780393340662
ISBN10: 039334066X



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In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner begins with Lincoln's youth in Indiana and Illinois and follows the trajectory of his career across an increasingly tense and shifting political terrain from Illinois to Washington, D.C. Although naturally anti-slavery for as long as he can remember, Lincoln scrupulously holds to the position that the Constitution protects the institution in the original slave states. But the political landscape is transformed in 1854 when the Kansas-Nebraska Act makes the expansion of slavery a national issue.

A man of considered words and deliberate actions, Lincoln navigates the dynamic politics deftly, taking measured steps, often along a path forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party. Lincoln rises to leadership in the new Republican Party by calibrating his politics to the broadest possible antislavery coalition. As president of a divided nation and commander in chief at war, displaying a similar compound of pragmatism and principle, Lincoln finally embraces what he calls the Civil War's fundamental and astounding result: the immediate, uncompensated abolition of slavery and recognition of blacks as American citizens.

Foner's Lincoln emerges as a leader, one whose greatness lies in his capacity for moral and political growth through real engagement with allies and critics alike. This powerful work will transform our understanding of the nation's greatest president and the issue that mattered most.

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"A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era." Boston Globe

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Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the , this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.

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Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation, highly respected by historians of every stripe--whether they specialize in political history or social history. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations: the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He has worked on every detail of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize.

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Pragmatic Whig , January 01, 2012
Focusing on President Lincoln, a painstakingly researched and nuanced examination of the changing views on slavery and race in the nation, from ante bellum to the end of the Civil War. As a young Whig congressman from Illinois, Lincoln opposes the expansion of slavery, not for its racial injustice against black Americans but because it devalues the labor of working whites. As the Whig party dissolves, he and other free-labor, anti-slavery Whigs join the new anti-slavery Republican Party, compromise seems only to whet Southern bellicosity, and the North grows impatient and increasingly abolitionist. While preservation of the union is Lincoln's primary objective, the President's beliefs evolve to a more inclusive view of the contributions and rights of newly emancipated black citizens. This book provides a fresh and well documented perspective on the issues of race and rights that still divide the nation.

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lawyerADF , January 01, 2012
Foner can write, and is a true scholar, as well. His description of the time in which Lincoln lived and the beliefs of those surrounding him makes his growing awareness of slavery's injustice clearly remarkable. Foner's perception is brilliantly articulated, that seeing Lincoln as having evolved his understanding of slavery's evil is more of a tribute than imagining that he was born clutching the Emancipation Proclamation in his hands.

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ISBN:
9780393340662
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
09/26/2011
Publisher:
W W NORTON & CO
Pages:
426
Height:
1.20IN
Width:
5.50IN
Thickness:
1.25
Illustration:
Yes
Author:
Eric Foner
Author:
Eric Foner
Subject:
General-General
Subject:
US History-1800 to Civil War
Subject:
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

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