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A new birth of freedom : Abraham Lincoln and the coming of the Civil War

A New Birth of Freedom is the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America's foremost scholars of American politics, Harry V. Jaffa.
Print Book, English, 2004
1st pbk. ed View all formats and editions
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., 2004
History
xiv, 550 pages ; 23 cm
9780847699537, 0847699536
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The election of 1800 and the election of 1860
The Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and historians
The divided American mind on the eve of conflict: James Buchanan, Jefferson Davis, and Alexander Stephens survey the crisis
The mind of Lincoln's Inaugural and the argument and action of the debate that shaped it, I
The mind of Lincoln's Inaugural and the argument and action of the debate that shaped it, II
July 4, 1861: Lincoln tells why the Union must be preserved
Slavery, succession, and state rights: the political teaching of John C. Calhoun
Appendix: "The dividing line between Federal and local authority: popular sovereignty in the territories": a commentary
Originally published in hardcover in 2000