Abraham Lincoln's statesmanship and the limits of liberal democracy /
Schaff analyzes how Lincoln's political thought and presidential statesmanship illustrate the need for a limit to democratic excess. Decent government, he argues, demands a balance of competing political goods as well as the strong statesmanship Lincoln exemplified to maintain that equilibrium.
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Lincoln and the architecture of democracy's soul
- Lincoln and the political virtues of prudence and moderation
- Lincoln and the defense of natural rights
- Lincoln's political economy in the American tradition
- The domestic Lincoln: presidential power and the Second American Revolution
- Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
- Whigs and Lincoln: a realignment reconsidered
- The domestic Lincoln and Congressional government.