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Lincoln - The Ambiguous Icon (Paperback)
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Lincoln - The Ambiguous Icon (Paperback)
Series: Modernity and Political Thought
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The judgment that Abraham Lincoln is the finest president in the
history of the United States borders on self-evident. This status
tends to disable the very possibility of a more critical
understanding or appreciation, one that does not work, explicitly
or implicitly, within the taken-for-granted frame of his greatness.
Still, America is not blind to or ignorant of Lincoln's
shortcomings. Rather it is in part because of these shortcomings
that Lincoln is revered. Thus, if the country needs to legitimize a
problematic course of action, it is Lincoln to whom it turns.
Lincoln, America reminds itself, suspended habeas corpus; jailed
political opponents; suppressed speech; held racist views; and
pursued racist policies. The Lincoln that America "idealizes" is a
thoroughly ambiguous figure. Simultaneously, the country tends to
downplay or conveniently overlook the underside of Lincoln, part of
a larger political pattern in which it proclaims its exceptionalism
while indulging the very worst as it conducts its political
affairs. It is time to take Lincoln's ambiguity seriously, which
might put America in position to recognize that one reason it
routinely falls short of its democratic principles and commitments
is that it may not, just like Lincoln, fully believe in them. In
Lincoln: The Ambiguous Icon, Steven Johnston explores Lincoln's
complicated political thought and practice, reinterpreting the
Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural, and some of the many
manifestations of Lincoln in film, monuments, and memorials that
conceal-but also reveal-the terrible ambiguity of this marginally
understood American figure.
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