Lincoln lessons reflections on America's greatest leader / [electronic resource] : edited by Frank J. Williams and William D. Pederson. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009. - vii, 184 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-172) and index.

Getting right with Mary Lincoln: or, how a first lady taught me to be a feminist / Jean H. Baker -- Lincoln on democracy / Mario M. Cuomo -- A view from the Lincoln museum / Joan Flinspach -- The evolution of a Lincoln editor / Sara Vaughn Gabbard -- Transforming foes to allies: the political alchemy of Lincoln / Doris Kearns Goodwin -- The Lincoln visual image: a personal journey of discovery / Harold V. Jaffa -- Lincoln through the eyes of a civil war and civil rights historian / John F. Marszalek -- Lincoln's legacy for our time / James M. McPherson -- Lincoln and African American memory / Edna Greene Medford -- Suspension of habeas corpus / Sandra Day O'Connor -- Lincoln and the meaning of equality: how I became a "lost cause" apostate / Mackubin Thomas Owens -- Crossing borders to an international Lincoln / William D. Pederson -- Tell me what you want to believe, and I'll tell you what you will believe / Edward Steers Jr. -- Sixteen feet tall: Abraham Lincoln and history / Craig L. Symonds -- Historian, editor, and the assassination legacy / Thomas Reed Turner -- The compleat Lincolnator: enthusiast, collector, and scholar / Frank J. Williams.


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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Influence.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Political and social views.


Political leadership--United States.
Democracy--United States.
Presidents--United States--Biography.


United States--Politics and government--Philosophy.


Electronic books.

E457.2 / .L833 2009eb

973.7092