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050 00 $aE457$b.C43 2006
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100 1 $aCarwardine, Richard.
245 10 $aLincoln /$cRichard Carwardine.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2006.
263 $a0601
300 $ap. cm.
500 $aOriginally published: Harlow, England : Pearson/Longman, 2003.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. Inner power : Lincoln's ambition and political vision, 1809-54 -- Ambition -- Political vision -- Moral crisis : 1854 -- The religious roots of moral power -- 2. The power of opinion : Lincoln : the Illinois public and the new political order, 1854-58 -- Lincoln, democratic politics and public opinion -- Illinois public opinion and the anti-Nebraska fusion movement -- The senatorial campaign of 1858 -- 3. The power of party : winning the presidency, 1858-60 -- Presidential ambition : Lincoln, his party and the road to the Decatur convention -- The Republican presidential nomination -- The 1860 presidential campaign : the power of a righteous party -- 4. Confronting the limits of power : from president-elect to war president, 1860-61 -- In the antechamber to power : holding the party line -- From Springfield to Sumter : building a united front -- Strategies for 'a people's war' -- 'What shall I do? The people are impatient...' -- 5. The purposes of power : evolving objectives, 1861-65 -- Reading the public -- 'Every indispensable means' : toward the Emancipation Proclamation -- Faith and purposes -- Faithfulness of purpose : emancipation, reconstruction and black citizenship -- 6. The instruments of power : coercion and voluntary mobilization, 1861-65 -- Coercion, repression and executive power -- Popular mobilization : the 'power of the right word' and the agency of party -- Popular mobilization : churches and philanthropic organizations -- The Union army as a moral force -- The election of 1864 : 'the second birth of our nation' -- 7. Conclusion : power in death -- Chronology of Lincoln's life.
600 10 $aLincoln, Abraham,$d1809-1865.
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$vBiography.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1861-1865.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1815-1861.