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1 online resource (1 audio file (18hr., 23 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Library of Religious Biography ; |
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Guelzo, Allen C..
Library of Religious Biography. Spoken word ;
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Edward Lewis. |
| Summary |
This unique intellectual portrait explores the role of ideas in Lincoln's life. Guelzo presents Lincoln as a serious thinker deeply involved in the problems of nineteenth-century thought, including those of classical liberalism, the Lockean Enlightenment, Victorian unbelief, and Calvinist spirituality. Lincoln emerges as a philosophical man who appropriates certain religious values without adhering to any religion, who insists on the pre-eminence of self-interest in spite of becoming the Great Emancipator, and who appeals to natural law and natural theology in politics while remaining a classical nineteenth-century liberal in principle. Based on primary materials from a wide variety of archives, this insightful work sheds light on the intellectual conflicts that led to civil war and that still influence today's "culture wars." |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Philosophy.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Religion.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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Lewis, Edward. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781538597514 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1538597519 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10024955 |
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