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A Nation So Conceived - Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty (Hardcover)
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A Nation So Conceived - Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty (Hardcover)
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The culmination of years of work on Abraham Lincoln’s political
thought, Michael Zuckert’s A Nation So Conceived argues for a
coherent center to Lincoln’s political ideology, a core idea that
unifies his thought and thus illuminates his deeds as a political
actor. That core idea is captured in the term “democratic
sovereignty.” Zuckert provides invaluable guidance to
understanding both Lincoln and the politics of the United States
between 1845 and Lincoln’s death in 1865 by focusing on roughly a
dozen speeches that Lincoln made during his career. This
reader-friendly chronological organization is motivated by
Zuckert’s emphasis on Lincoln as a practical politician who was
always fully aware of the political context of the moment within
which he was speaking.According to Lincoln’s speech at
Gettysburg, America was new precisely because it was born in
dedication to the first premise of the theory of democratic
sovereignty: that all men are created equal. Lincoln’s thought
consisted in an ever-deepening meditation on the grounds and
implications of that proposition, both in its constructive and in
its destructive potential. The goodness of the American regime is
derived from that ground and the chief dangers to the regime
emanate from the same soil. Covering all significant speeches and
writings of Lincoln both in his pre-presidential and presidential
days, A Nation So Conceived is devoted to exploring the paradoxical
duality of “created equal.” In a nearly comprehensive study of
Lincoln’s thought, Zuckert uses lessons he learned from decades
of teaching to reveal how Lincoln understood both its truth and its
pathological consequences while offering an assessment of his aims
and achievements as a statesman.
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