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Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

By: Allen C. Guelzo
Narrated by: Edward Lewis
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This unique intellectual portrait explores the role of ideas in Lincoln’s life. Guelzo presents Lincoln as a serious thinker deeply involved in the problems of 19th-century thought, including those of classical liberalism, the Lockean Enlightenment, Victorian unbelief, and Calvinist spirituality. Lincoln emerges as a philosophical man who appropriates certain religious values without adhering to any religion, who insists on the pre-eminence of self-interest in spite of becoming the Great Emancipator, and who appeals to natural law and natural theology in politics while remaining a classical 19th-century liberal in principle. Based on primary materials from a wide variety of archives, this insightful work sheds light on the intellectual conflicts that led to civil war and that still influence today’s “culture wars.”

©1999 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Americas Historical Politicians Politics & Activism Presidents & Heads of State Religious United States Liberalism

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“Out of the countless volumes written about our 16th president, [this] ranks quite simply among the best.” ( Wall Street Journal)
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this book is a precise synopsis of a great thinker who got the USA through the worst period of its history correcting a glaring self-contradiction of our national creed - slavery. only a man as capable as Lincoln could have used the simple methods available at that time to solve this monstrous problem. a well organized explanation of what Lincoln did and how he got in this position for beginner historians like me. great book for curious Americans

great synopsis of a great president

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Anything written by Allen Guelzo is always superb and to be trusted. Not only does his writing flow, but his analysis is sensitive, discerning and penetrating. It is always a joy for me to read anything written by Dr. Guelzo.

Allen Guelzo is always superb

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After listening to the interesting and dynamic Gettysburg by Guelzo, I rather expected the same caliber material in this book. I did not find it so. The narration was dismal, and I thought the focus on Lincoln’s religiosity, or more precisely, lack thereof, overdone. I listened to the entire presentation in the hopes that at some point a spark akin to that in Guelzo’s Gettysburg would ignite, but it never did for me.

Okay, but not riveting

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Never have I learned so much about a person I thought I already knew. This is a great book on Audible as it makes all the details flow into a story without the common monotony sometimes accompanying long biographies. Made me love Lincoln even more.

A Full and Beautiful Picture

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This is an extremely thoughtful analysis of Abraham Lincoln. It is so well-written that it overcomes the awful, robotic reading. I would highly recommend, just push through the presentation.

Great book on Lincoln, a must read

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The contents of this book is scholarly and very interesting. But since this is an audio book, I wish to speak to that. I have heard Prof. Guelzo teach in the Great Courses, and I was hoping he narrated his own book. He has a way of engaging you. His tone, his inflections give the sense; they add a spirit to his words. The narration of this audio book, on the other hand, sounds more like a sewing machine than anything else.

It is a great book. I will buy the hard copy and read it myself.

Great book, bad narration

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Could not make it much beyond the beginning due to the narration. Very grating on the ears. Unfortunately, since I enjoy Prof. Guelzo and would love to hear him narrate.

Terrible narration

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The narrator says Lincoln had never shown an interest in abolition until the 1950s. And another sentence adjacent referring to the 1960s.

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