Lincoln : a life of purpose and power / Richard Carwardine.
Record details
- ISBN: 1400044561
- ISBN: 9781400044566
- Physical Description: xv, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st American edition
- Publisher: New York : Random House, 2006.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Originally published: London : Pearson Education, 2003.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-360) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1. Inner power : Lincoln's ambition and political vision, 1809-54 -- Ambition -- Political vision -- Moral crisis : 1854 -- The religious roots of moral power -- 2. The power of opinion : Lincoln : the Illinois public and the new political order, 1854-58 -- Lincoln, democratic politics and public opinion -- Illinois public opinion and the anti-Nebraska fusion movement -- The senatorial campaign of 1858 -- 3. The power of party : winning the presidency, 1858-60 -- Presidential ambition : Lincoln, his party and the road to the Decatur convention -- The Republican presidential nomination -- The 1860 presidential campaign : the power of a righteous party -- 4. Confronting the limits of power : from president-elect to war president, 1860-61 -- In the antechamber to power : holding the party line -- From Springfield to Sumter : building a united front -- Strategies for 'a people's war' -- 'What shall I do? The people are impatient...' -- 5. The purposes of power : evolving objectives, 1861-65 -- Reading the public -- 'Every indispensable means' : toward the Emancipation Proclamation -- Faith and purposes -- Faithfulness of purpose : emancipation, reconstruction and black citizenship -- 6. The instruments of power : coercion and voluntary mobilization, 1861-65 -- Coercion, repression and executive power -- Popular mobilization : the 'power of the right word' and the agency of party -- Popular mobilization : churches and philanthropic organizations -- The Union army as a moral force -- The election of 1864 : 'the second birth of our nation' -- 7. Conclusion : power in death -- Chronology of Lincoln's life.
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 12.7 30 108070.
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| Jacksonville Main Library | BIO LINCOLN (Text) | 36015000678843 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | B LINCOLN (Text) | 50503300187871 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Belhaven Public Library | B Lincoln, A (Text) | 38344101157335 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | B LINCOLN (Text) | 22281500055794 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Forsyth Central | B Lincoln, Abraham (Text) | 0112513604812 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Goldsboro Library | B LINCOLN (Text) | 640191002792822 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| King Public Library | B LINCOLN (Text) | 40599000653090 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Lewisville Branch | B LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (Text) | 0112513604770 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Pack Memorial Library | B LINCOLN (Text) | 0020506438215 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Reynolda Manor Branch | B LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (Text) | 0112513604762 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
