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Lincoln and the Border States

其他書名	Preserving the Union
出版	University Press of Kansas, 2014
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Z9OnzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Adopting a new approach to an American icon, an award-winning scholar reexamines the life of Abraham Lincoln to demonstrate how his remarkable political acumen and leadership skills evolved during the intense partisan conflict in pre-Civil War Illinois. By describing Lincoln's rise from obscurity to the presidency, William Harris shows that Lincoln's road to political success was far from eas-and that his reaction to events wasn't always wise or his racial attitudes free of prejudice. Although most scholars have labeled Lincoln a moderate, Harris reveals that he was by his own admission a conse.