Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President [Audiobook] by Allen C. Guelzo
English | February 28th, 2011 | ASIN: B004PXVW96, ISBN: 1441784055 | MP3@64 kbps | 18 hrs 29 mins | 506.86 MB
Narrator: Edward Lewis
English | February 28th, 2011 | ASIN: B004PXVW96, ISBN: 1441784055 | MP3@64 kbps | 18 hrs 29 mins | 506.86 MB
Narrator: Edward Lewis
This unique intellectual portrait explores the role of ideas in Lincoln’s life. Guelzo presents Lincoln as a serious thinker deeply involved in the problems of 19th-century thought, including those of classical liberalism, the Lockean Enlightenment, Victorian unbelief, and Calvinist spirituality.
Lincoln emerges as a philosophical man who appropriates certain religious values without adhering to any religion, who insists on the pre-eminence of self-interest in spite of becoming the Great Emancipator, and who appeals to natural law and natural theology in politics while remaining a classical 19th-century liberal in principle. Based on primary materials from a wide variety of archives, this insightful work sheds light on the intellectual conflicts that led to civil war and that still influence today’s “culture wars.”
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