The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

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ISBN-10: 039334066X
ISBN-13: 9780393340662
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 09/26/2011
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.20" H

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

byEric Foner

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Overview

Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln’s lifelong engagement with the nation’s critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln’s greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.

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Do we need yet another book on Lincoln?... Well, yes, we do if the book is by so richly informed a commentator as Eric Foner. Foner tackles what would seem to be an obvious topic, Lincoln and slavery, and manages to cast new light on it.... Because of his broad-ranging knowledge of the 19th century, Foner is able to provide the most thorough and judicious account of Lincoln's attitudes toward slavery that we have.–David S. Reynolds
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Details

ISBN-10: 039334066X
ISBN-13: 9780393340662
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 09/26/2011
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.20" H
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