Allen C. Guelzo

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (eBook, ePUB)

The End of Slavery in America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars offers an authoritative consideration of the document that represents the most far-reaching accomplishment of our greatest president.

No single official paper in American history changed the lives of as many Americans as Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. But no American document has been held up to greater suspicion. Its bland and lawyerlike language is unfavorably compared to the soaring eloquence of the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural; its effectiveness in freeing the slaves has been dismissed as a legal illusion. And for some African-Americans the Proclamation raises doubts about Lincoln himself.

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation dispels the myths and mistakes surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation and skillfully reconstructs how America's greatest president wrote the greatest American proclamation of freedom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781416547952
• Artikelnr.: 49186146

Autorenporträt

Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College, where he also directs the Civil War Era Studies Program and The Gettysburg Semester. He is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (1999) and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (2004), both of which won the Lincoln Prize. He has written essays and reviews for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time, the Journal of American History, and many other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One: Four Ways to Freedom
Two: The President Will Rise
Three: An Instrument In God's Hands
Four: The Mighty Act
Five: Fame Takes Him By The Hand
Postscript: Father Abraham
Appendix
Notes
Index