Lincoln : the ambiguous icon /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnston, Steven (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
Series:Modernity and political thought.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Lincoln's ambiguity
  • Lincoln's decisionism and the politics of elimination
  • Democratic ironies of Lincoln's cinematic exceptionalism
  • A "humble offering": the (first) Lincoln memorial
  • Lincoln's persistent racial ambivalence: colonization
  • What to the Indian is the Gettysburg Address?
  • American exceptionalism or American narcissism? The second inaugural
  • Lincoln's tragic revenge.