This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Monday, November 22, 1999)
 | | Abraham Lincoln:
A Constitutional Biography
by George Anastaplo |
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
373 pages, January 1999
Hardcover, 35.00
ISBN: 0-8476-9431-3
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.
Renowned scholar George Anastaplo describes in vivid detail a side of Abraham Lincoln that previous biographers have overlooked: the development, impact, and legacy of his legal and constitutional thought.
With eloquent insights into Lincoln's intellect and the issues dividing the country he led, Anastaplo describes how the sixteenth president successfully managed the impossible task of keeping the world's greatest democracy united.
Anastaplo also demonstrates Lincoln's continuing and profound influence on modern American society, law, and politics and shows readers the lessons this fascinating man can still teach Americans about coping with diverse times.
This book is a major landmark in the study of Abraham Lincoln.
Table of Contents
- Prologue
- 1. The Declaration of Independence
- 2. The Declaration of Independence
- 3. The Northwest Ordinance
- 4. Slavery and the Federal Convention of 1787
- 5. The common Law and the Organization of Government
- 6. Alexis de Tocquiville on Democracy in America
- 7. John C. Calhoun and Slavery
- 8. Southern Illinois's Abraham Lincoln
- 9. The Poetry of Abraham Lincoln
- 10. The “House Divided” Speech
- 11. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- 12. The First Inaugural Address
- 13. The Fourth of July Message to Congress
- 14. The Emancipation Proclamation
- 15. The Gettysburg Address
- 16. The Second Inaugural Address
- 17. Abraham Lincoln's Legacies
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
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