Lincoln's Enduring Legacy

Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment

Contributions by Danny Adkison, John Barr, Byron Daynes, David Demaree, Gordon Henderson, James MacDonald, David Mass, David Nordquest, Norman W. Provizer, Hyrum Salmond, Mary Elizabeth Stockwell, Richard Striner, Robert P. Watson, Richard M. Yon Ph.D, United States Military Academy at West Point Edited by William D. Pederson, Frank J. Williams Retired Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and founding Chair, Robert P. Watson

Publication date:

16 December 2010

Length of book:

272 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

239x164mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780739149898

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.

1 Preface
2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Lincoln, Leadership, and Legacy
Part 4 Lincoln's Legacy with Great Thinkers and Leaders
5 Overview
Chapter 6 Chapter 2. Tolstoy on Lincoln
Chapter 7 Chapter 3. Mill and Lincoln on Liberty
Chapter 8 Chapter 4. Theodore Roosevelt and the Heirs of Lincoln
Chapter 9 Chapter 5. Woodrow Wilson and Lincoln's Bridge to the World
Chapter 10 Chapter 6. Lincoln's Impact on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chapter 11 Chapter 7. Lincoln and the Idea of a Democratic Peace
Part 12 Lincoln's Legacy and American Memory
13 Overview
Chapter 14 Chapter 8. African-American Memory and the Great Emancipator
Chapter 15 Chapter 9. Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and Herbert Croly's America
Chapter 16 Chapter 10. Lincoln's Relationship with Gentility in America
Chapter 17 Chapter 11. Lincoln's Use of Religion and Morality
Chapter 18 Chapter 12. Shaping American Foreign Policy: Comparing Lincoln/Seward and Nixon/Kissinger
Chapter 19 Chapter 13. Lincoln as Father: Dealing with Tragedy in the White House
20 Epilogue
Chapter 21 Chapter 14. Reflections on Lincoln's Enduring Legacy

This collection of essays, edited by three productive scholars, will find an appreciative audience among historians and Lincoln devotees. Well researched and well written, it demonstrates Lincoln's Enduring Legacy, his imprint not only on important individuals but also on humanity as a whole. No one interested in learning about the 16th president will want to miss reading this significant book.