The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America
- ISBN-10
- 0674511263
- ISBN-13
- 9780674511262
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 214
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Author
- Mark E. Neely
Description
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln analyzes the great president's political career, his fierce nationalism, his greater moral purpose that made him oppose slavery, and other facets of his life and times. By the author of The Fate of Liberty. 10,000 first printing.
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- 1993
- 214 pages
- Paperback
- Harvard University Press
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