A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (with New Foreword)Rowman & Littlefield, 1 sep. 2018 - 620 sidor When it originally appeared, A New Birth of Freedom represented a milestone in Lincoln studies, the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America's foremost scholars of American politics. Now reissued on the centenary of Jaffa’s birth with a new foreword by the esteemed Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo, this long-awaited sequel to Jaffa’s earlier classic, Crisis of the House Divided, offers a piercing examination of the political thought of Abraham Lincoln and the themes of self-government, equality, and statesmanship on the eve of the Civil War. “Four decades ago, Harry Jaffa offered powerful insights on the Lincoln-Douglas debates in his Crisis of the House Divided. In this long-awaited sequel, he picks up the threads of that earlier study in this stimulating new interpretation of the showdown conflict between slavery and freedom in the election of 1860 and the secession crisis that followed. Every student of Lincoln needs to read and ponder this book.”— James M. McPherson, Princeton University “A masterful synthesis and analysis of the contending political philosophies on the eve of the Civil War. A magisterial work that arrives after a lifetime of scholarship and reflection—and earns our gratitude as well as our respect.”— Kirkus Reviews “The essence of Jaffa's case—meticulously laid out over nearly 500 pages—is that the Constitution is not, as Lincoln put it, a 'free love arrangement' held together by passing fancy. It is an indissoluble compact in which all men consent to be governed by majority, provided their inalienable rights are preserved.”— Bret Stephens; The Wall Street Journal |
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... Douglas had conducted across the Illinois prairies during the contest for the state's US Senate seat in 1858 was nothing less than the homefarm version of Plato's Republic. “After awhile, I realized that the issue between Lincoln and ...
... Douglas had conducted across the Illinois prairies during the contest for the state's US Senate seat in 1858 was nothing less than the homefarm version of Plato's Republic. “After awhile, I realized that the issue between Lincoln and ...
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... Douglas. Douglas's fundamental contention in 1858 was that injecting “the abstract question of the intrinsic good or evil of slavery” into democratic deliberation would only paralyze America's potential for prosperity and security ...
... Douglas. Douglas's fundamental contention in 1858 was that injecting “the abstract question of the intrinsic good or evil of slavery” into democratic deliberation would only paralyze America's potential for prosperity and security ...
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... Douglas and Roger Taney, in which originalism was whatever the jurists thought 1776 or 1787 had said, rather than an originalism based on “the laws of nature and of nature's God.” Jaffa extolled Lincoln as “the greatest of all ...
... Douglas and Roger Taney, in which originalism was whatever the jurists thought 1776 or 1787 had said, rather than an originalism based on “the laws of nature and of nature's God.” Jaffa extolled Lincoln as “the greatest of all ...
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... Douglas—and it was no coincidence, either, that Progressive writers on Lincoln (especially Beveridge and Edgar Lee Masters) were admirers of Douglas. The nineteenth century might have been Lincoln's century, but it was also the century ...
... Douglas—and it was no coincidence, either, that Progressive writers on Lincoln (especially Beveridge and Edgar Lee Masters) were admirers of Douglas. The nineteenth century might have been Lincoln's century, but it was also the century ...
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... Douglas, with Douglas reprising his original role from Crisis as Thrasymachus. Taney, in the Dred Scott decision, is ... Douglas's parlance, is represented by the doctrine of popular sovereignty, which mimics elections but which in fact ...
... Douglas, with Douglas reprising his original role from Crisis as Thrasymachus. Taney, in the Dred Scott decision, is ... Douglas's parlance, is represented by the doctrine of popular sovereignty, which mimics elections but which in fact ...
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Chapter 3 The Divided American Mind on the Eve of Conflict James Buchanan Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens Survey the Crisis | 153 |
Chapter 4 The Mind of Lincolns Inaugural and the Argument and Action of the Debate That Shaped ItI | 237 |
Chapter 5 The Mind of Lincolns Inaugural and the Argument and Action of the Debate That Shaped ItII | 285 |
Chapter 6 July 4 1861 Lincoln Tells Why the Union Must Be Preserved | 357 |
Chapter 7 Slavery Secession and State Rights The Political Teaching of John C Calhoun | 403 |
Appendix The Dividing Line between Federal and Local Authority Popular Sovereignty in the TerritoriesA Commentary | 473 |
Notes | 489 |
Index | 539 |
About the Author | 551 |
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