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Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Sara Vaughn Gabbard Introduction: Interpreting Lincoln the Man and His Times 1 Joseph R. Fornieri 1. A. Lincoln, Philosopher: Lincoln’s Place in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History 7 Allen C. Guelzo 2. Tocqueville and Lincoln on Religion and Democracy in America 28 Joseph R. Fornieri 3. Schooling in Lincoln’s America and Lincoln’s Extraordinary Self-Schooling 55 Myron Marty 4. American Religion, 1809–1865 72 Mark Noll 5. The Middle-Class Marriage of Abraham and Mary Lincoln 94 Kenneth J. Winkle 6. Abraham Lincoln: The Making of the Attorney-in-Chief 115 Frank J. Williams vii 7. “No Such Right”: The Origins of Lincoln’s Rejection of the Right of Property in Slaves 135 James Oakes 8. Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Movement 151 Richard Striner 9. “As Good as It Can Be Made”: Abraham Lincoln’s Heroic Image in Nineteenth-Century Art 169 Harold Holzer 10. Lincoln and the Nature of “A More Perfect Union” 191 Herman Belz Appendix: Chronology of Lincoln’s America 225 Contributors 231 Index 233 viii Contents ...

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