Lincoln's tragic pragmatism : Lincoln, Douglas, and moral conflict / John Burt.
Lincoln's tragic pragmatism : Lincoln, Douglas, and moral conflict / John Burt.
Lincoln's tragic pragmatism : Lincoln, Douglas, and moral conflict / John Burt.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Date
2013.
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G 2013/3432
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English
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xvii, 814 p. ; 25 cm.
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tekst
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zonder medium
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band
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Introduction : implicitness and moral conflict. Negative capability ; Liberalism and moral conflict -- Lincoln's Peoria Speech of 1854. The debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Act ; Making and breaking deals in 1850 and in 1854 ; Lincoln's chief arguments ; The irony of American history -- Lincoln's con...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
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Massachusetts
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2013.
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"In 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than slavery in those debates. In Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism, John Burt contends that the very legitimacy of democratic governance was on the line. In a United States stubbornly divided over ethical...
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Lincoln's tragic pragmatism : Lincoln, Douglas, and moral conflict / John Burt.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 775-790) and index.
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G 2013/3432
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74VKPlWybZQX
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9780674067332
9780674050181 (alk. paper)
0674050185 (alk. paper)
0674067339 (ebook)
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973.7092
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991019792839702626
