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This review is from: Lincoln's American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives (Hardcover)
An uneven collection of articles from the various strands of scholarship related to the public policy of Abraham Lincoln.
A good book for serious students of President Lincoln, but one that will be too heavy to wade through for most casual readers. I thought the editors could have organized the material a bit more clearly, for example providing the original publication date of each article at its start. And a horrible proofreading error occurs on page 322. When commenting specifically on the famous editing improvements that President Lincoln made to Seward's suggested closing for the First Inaugural, the phrase "by the better angels of our nature" becomes "by the better angles..." |
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Lincoln's American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives by Joseph R. Fornieri (Paperback - September 30, 2005)
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