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Lincoln and Democratic Statesmanship (Hardcover)
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Lincoln and Democratic Statesmanship (Hardcover)
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Our ideas of statesmanship are fraught with seeming contradictions:
The democratic statesman is true to the people's wishes and views -
but also capable of standing against popular opinion when
necessary. The statesman rises above conflicts and seeks compromise
between parties - but also stands firmly for what is right. Abraham
Lincoln, perhaps more than any other political figure in US
history, affords us an opportunity to evaluate the philosophical,
political, and practical implications of these paradoxical
propositions. Asking whether and how Lincoln acted in a statesmanly
manner at critical moments, the authors of this volume aim to
clarify what precisely statesmanship might be; their work
illuminates important themes and events in Lincoln's career even as
it broadens and sharpens our understanding of the general nature of
statesmanship. One of Lincoln's abiding themes was foreshadowed in
his Lyceum Address, delivered when he was not yet thirty: the call
for the prevalence of a sort of public opinion that he
characterized as a political religion. As it relates to democratic
statesmanship, what does Lincoln's political religion have to do
with religion per se? How, in his role as statesman as a master of
democratic speech, did Lincoln handle the two major issues he faced
as a political leader: slavery and the war? In attempting to meet
the demand that he use acceptable means to achieve his ends, did
Lincoln - can any statesman - keep his hands clean? Are there
inevitable transgressions that a statesman must commit? These are
among the topics the authors take on as they consider Lincoln's
democratic and rhetorical statesmanship, on occasion drawing
comparisons with his contemporaries Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas
or even such a distant forerunner as Pericles. Finally, framing
statesmanship in terms of three factors - knowledge of the
political good of a community, circumstance, and the best possible
action in light of these two - this volume renders a nuanced,
deeply informed judgment on what distinguishes Lincoln as a
statesman, and what distinguishes a statesman from a (mere)
politician.
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