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In his acclaimed book Lincolns Virtues, William Lee Miller explored Abraham Lincolns intellectual and moral development. Now he completes his ethical biography, showing how the amiable and inexperienced backcountry politician was transformed by constitutional alchemy into an oath-bound head of state. Faced with a radical moral contradiction left by the nations Founders, Lincoln struggled to find a balance between the universal ideals of Equality and Liberty and the monstrous injustice of human slavery. With wit and penetrating sensitivity, Miller brings together the great themes that have become Lincolns legacy--preserving the United States of America while ending the odious institution that corrupted the nations meaning--and illuminates his remarkable presidential combination: indomitable resolve and supreme magnanimity.About the AuthorWilliam Lee Miller has taught at Yale University, Smith College, Indiana University, and the University of Virginia, where he is currently Miller Center of Public Affairs Scholar in Ethics and Institutions. He has been an editor and writer on a political magazine, a speechwriter, and a three-term alderman. He is the author of numerous books. Arguing About Slavery won the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
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