A just and generous nation Abraham Lincoln and the fight for American opportunity
"In A Just and Generous Nation, the eminent historian Harold Holzer and the noted economist Norton Garfinkle present a groundbreaking new account of the beliefs that inspired our sixteenth president to go to war when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Rather than a commitment to eradicating...
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Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- PART ONE
- 1. Simple Annals of the Poor : Dreaming the American Dream
- 2. Right Makes Might : Lincoln the Candidate
- 3. Chain of Steel : Defender of the Union
- 4. Saving the Union : Lincoln the Leader
- 5. Wholly Evil or Wholly Good : Not Quite an Abolitionist
- 6. Forever Free : Lincoln the Emancipator
- 7. What We Say Here and What we Do Here : Lincoln the Warrior
- PART TWO
- 8. Full Speed Ahead : Without Lincoln at the Helm
- 9. Positive Government : The Lincoln Legacy
- 10. For a Vast Future : Expanding Lincoln's American Dream
- 11. Government Is the Problem : Rejecting Lincoln's Legacy
- 12. The New Economic Debate : Clinton, Bush, and Obama
- Epilogue: Government for the People : Lincoln's Unfinished Work.
