Volume 41, Number 8 · April 21, 1994
Liberating Lincoln
By James M. McPherson
Lincoln in American Memory
by Merrill D. Peterson
Oxford University Press, 482 pp., $30.00
The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
by Phillip Shaw Paludan
University Press of Kansas, 378 pp., $29.95
The Lincoln Persuasion: Remaking American Liberalism
by J. David Greenstone
Princeton University Press, 312 pp., $13.95 (paper)
A half score years ago I lectured on Lincoln's birthday to the Lincoln group of Delaware, one of many similar organizations dedicated to preserving the memory of our sixteenth president. I spoke about Lincoln's leadership in the 'Second American Revolution' that abolished slavery and overthrew the power of the planter class. After the talk I agreed to an interview with a Wilmington radio station. The first question the interviewer asked was: 'If Lincoln were alive today, what would he do about abortion and the budget deficit?'
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