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Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency
William C. Harris
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Description for Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency
Hardcover. Adopting a different approach to an American icon, this work reexamines the life of Abraham Lincoln to demonstrate how his remarkable political acumen and leadership skills evolved during the intense partisan conflict in pre-Civil War Illinois. Num Pages: 440 pages, 13 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 168 x 36. Weight in Grams: 785.
Adopting a new approach to an American icon, an award-winning scholar reexamines the life of Abraham Lincoln to demonstrate how his remarkable political acumen and leadership skills evolved during the intense partisan conflict in pre-Civil War Illinois. By describing Lincoln's rise from obscurity to the presidency, William Harris shows that Lincoln's road to political success was far from easy - and that his reaction to events wasn't always wise or his racial attitudes free of prejudice. Although most scholars have labeled Lincoln a moderate, Harris reveals that he was by his own admission a conservative who revered the Founders and ... Read more
Adopting a new approach to an American icon, an award-winning scholar reexamines the life of Abraham Lincoln to demonstrate how his remarkable political acumen and leadership skills evolved during the intense partisan conflict in pre-Civil War Illinois. By describing Lincoln's rise from obscurity to the presidency, William Harris shows that Lincoln's road to political success was far from easy - and that his reaction to events wasn't always wise or his racial attitudes free of prejudice. Although most scholars have labeled Lincoln a moderate, Harris reveals that he was by his own admission a conservative who revered the Founders and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700615209
SKU
V9780700615209
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About William C. Harris
William C. Harris, professor emeritus of history at North Carolina State University and recipient of the Lincoln Diploma of Honor, is author of nine other books, including Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi, With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union, and most recently Lincoln's Last Months.
Reviews for Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency
Illuminates Lincoln's remarkable rise from obscurity to the presidency and shows in fresh detail how he acquired, and exercised, the political skills and the wisdom that made him a great leader when he got there. William Lee Miller, author of Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography ""An insightful account that convincingly portrays Lincoln as a tactically shrewd, strategically principled, and eloquently ... Read more