Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era

Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era
ISBN-10
0375725326
ISBN-13
9780375725326
Category
History
Pages
210
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Author
David Herbert Donald

Description

A revised edition of the author's acclaimed biography of Lincoln and the Civil War era explores the role of Abraham Lincoln in nineteenth-century American history and provides two new essays on Lincoln's education and on his complex, frequently conflicting relationship to the rule of law. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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