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 | #911315 in Books |  Belknap Press |  2013-01-07 |  2012-12-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.32 x1.75 x6.66l,2.68 | File type: PDF | 832 pages

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Endless but important and interesting|By Eric J. Cassell|The book seems endless and yet it reveals a history of the US prior to the civil war that is not really known to most of us. In some ways (but only some) it is like the present period of US history where the underlying struggle is not clear but is clearly important and, I think, not what it seems. It is well written, bu| |John Burt has written a work that every serious student of Lincoln will have to read...Burt refracts Lincoln through the philosophy of Kant, Rawls and contemporary liberal political theory. His is very much a Lincoln for our time. (Steven B. Smith Ne

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 issues, the overarching question posed by the Lincoln-Douglas debates has not lost its urgency: Can a liberal...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict   |  John Burt. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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