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| Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World | 
 enlarge | Creator: Eric Foner
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 103648
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.5 x 1
ISBN: 0393067564
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7092
EAN: 9780393067569
ASIN: 0393067564
Publication Date: October 13, 2008
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Product Description
BOur best historians offer fresh insights on Abraham Lincoln and his time to mark the upcoming bicentennial of Lincoln's birth./BBRBRIn 1876 the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed, "No man can say anything that is new of Abraham Lincoln." Undeterred, the contributors to IOur Lincoln/I believe it is possible even now, especially if the starting point is the interaction between the life and the times.BRBRSeveral of these original essays focus on Lincoln's leadership as president and commander in chief. James M. McPherson examines Lincoln's deft navigation of the crosscurrents of politics and wartime strategy. Sean Wilentz assesses Lincoln's evolving position in the context of party politics. On slavery and race, Eric Foner writes of Lincoln and the movement to colonize emancipated slaves outside the United States. James Oakes considers Lincoln's views on race and citizenship. There are also brilliant essays on Lincoln's literary style, religious beliefs, and family life. The Lincoln who emerges is a man of his time, yet able to transcend and transform it?a reasonable measure of greatness.
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 A Good Coterie of Essays December 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This newest publication from the eminent Eric Foner is an early gift to avid readers of the Civil War and Lincoln. Many of us know we are fast approaching the bicentennial of Lincolns birth. As such this is but one of dozens of new volumes expected to arrive, Harold Holzer estimates at least 40 new works on Lincoln between November of 2008-Feb of 2009. br /br /Foners volume "Our Lincoln; New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World," does in fact offer new information. McPherson starts the volume off with a chapter dealing with Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief. While this is also the topic of McPherson's newest book, Tried by War, the topic of Lincoln as the Commander of both political and military America has been long over looked. br /br /Mark Neely, in the subsequent chapter, returns to an old debate which Neely has dominated for years- Civil Liberties. Neely does not necessarily conclude anything startling new; however he does bring to light two obscure letters which directly lead to policy. br /br /James Oakes has included a beautiful essay for this new book dealing on Lincoln and Race views. This is one of three essays on the subject of Lincoln as Emancipator. br /br /Foner includes an excellent essay on Lincoln and Colonization. This topic, often overshadowed by scholars is now, and in my view rightly, returning to prominence. Again this topic, nor this 'perspective' is all that 'new;' yet it does bring an old issue to new light. br /br /Perhaps the two most original essays come from Andrew Delbanco and Sean Wilentz. Wilentz writes about Lincoln's relationship to Andrew Jackson. Undeniably more work in this area is still needed. Delbanco discusses Lincoln's role in shaping literature but far more importantly, reflects on if Lincoln's voice is still heard as his contemporaries heard it.br / br /In 1876, Frederick Douglass spoke, "No man can say anything that is new of Abraham Lincoln." The statement remains as untrue today as it was when Douglass spoke it. Foner, McPherson and score of others disprove this statement, yet perhaps a more appropriate title would be "Our Lincoln; Perspectives on Lincoln and His World." br /br /This book is an excellent source for Licolnian scholars as well as novices to Lincoln and the Civil War.
 Their Lincoln November 12, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
New perspectives, as claimed by this book's sub-title, are not to be found to any great extent in this collection of essays.br /br /While not a bad book to purchase for a person who has not read much lately about Mr. Lincoln, I would suggest most readers will be better off buying one or more of the many new full biographies or book-length examinations of parts of this great man's life being published as a result of next year's 200th anniversary of his birth.br /br /In this book I found the essays by Eric Foner and Sean Wilentz the strongest. David Blight's is just a rant against the modern Republican Party. Finally, Catherine Clinton authors one of the poorest examples of writing I have seen lately in any serious book. As an example, here is one sentence from her essay: "Lincoln's penchant for melancholy might have allowed him to sink into gloom, but apparently he reined in his emotions and forged ahead with legal work."br /br /Although darkly troubled after reading Professor Clinton's essay, I reined in my deep gloom and forged ahead until I reached book's end.
"New" perspectives? October 20, 2008
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
As we approach the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, I suppose we can expect the already busy Lincoln book industry to go into hyperdrive. That necessarily means that a lot of stuff will get recycled and called "new." For the most part, this is what's happened with Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World. There's very little that's new in these essays, although nearly all of them are well worth reading insofar as they offer convenient overviews of well-established theses.br /br /Mark Neely, for example, who won a Pulitzer for his booklength treatment of Lincoln's troubled relationship with civil liberties, returns to the topic here. James Oakes, editor James Foner, and Manisha Sinha take a look at Lincoln and race. All three essays are good--particularly Oakes'--but none of them break new ground. Harold Holzer offers up yet another essay on visual images of Lincoln. James McPherson offers an essay culled from his newly-published (and quite good) book on Lincoln as commander in chief. Catherine Clinton and Richard Carwardine re-examine, respectively and rather conventionally, Lincoln's family relations and religion.br /br /Again, these essays are all solidly researched, well-written, and interesting. But they hardly offer new perspectgives. Three essays in the collection, however, are especially noteworthy. Sean Wilentz really does, I think, break some new ground in his exploration of the influence of Jacksonian democracy on Lincoln the politician (a startling and therefore fascinating thesis). Andrew Delbanco's essay on Lincoln's rhetorical style--his "sacramental language" as Delbanco calls it--is also a genuine contribution. The third noteworthy essay in the collection is memorable for its odd out-of-placeness: David Blight's rather bizarre piece that begins, rightfully, by warning readers against Lincoln triumphalism (as represented, Blight thinks, by historians such as Guelzo) as well as Lincoln bashing (of the DiLorenzo variety), but then explodes in an angry anti-Bush W. polemic (with which I'm totally sympathetic, by the way, but find inappropriate here).br /br /Three and a half stars. Stay tuned for scores more of "new perspectives" on Lincoln as we enter into the 200th year of his birth.
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