Lincoln's Enduring Legacy Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment

by Pederson, William D.; Williams, Frank J.; Adkison, Danny; Barr, John; Daynes, Byron; Demaree, David; Henderson, Gordon; MacDonald, James; Mass, David; Nordquest, David; Provizer, Norman W.; Salmond, Hyrum; Stockwell, Mary Elizabeth; Striner, Richard; Wats

• ISBN13: 9780739149898
• ISBN10: 073914989X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds have influenced the pursuit of justice and freedom and the practice of democracy in the century and a half since he governed. Lincoln, as an abolitionist, the architect of Reconstruction, an avowed Unionist, a wordsmith and rhetorician, his age's foremost prophet for democracy, and America's greatest president remains an iconic image in American memory.

Author Biography

Robert P. Watson is professor of American studies at Lynn University. William D. Pederson is the American studies chair at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Frank J. Williams is former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island and was appointed by Congress to serve on the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Introduction	p. 5
What Would Lincoln Do?	p. 7
Lincoln's Legacy with Great Thinkers and Leaders	p. 17
Tolstoy's Lincoln	p. 21
Mill and Lincoln on Liberty	p. 31
Theodore Roosevelt and the Heirs of Abraham Lincoln	p. 49
Woodrow Wilson and Lincoln's Bridge to the World	p. 63
Lincoln's Impact on Martin Luther King Jr.	p. 87
Lincoln and the Idea of a Democratic Peace	p. 109
Lincoln's Legacy and American Memory	p. 129
African American Memory and the Great Emancipator	p. 133
Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and Herbert Croly's America	p. 165
Lincoln's Relationship with Gentility in America	p. 179
Lincoln's Use of Religion and Morality	p. 197
Shaping American Foreign Policy: Comparing Lincoln/Seward and Nixon/Kissinger	p. 213
Lincoln as Father: Dealing with Tragedy in the White House	p. 225
Epilogue	p. 249
Abraham Lincoln's Enduring Legacy: Bicentennial Reflections	p. 251
Index	p. 253
About the Contributors	p. 261
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