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Abraham Lincoln
- Redeemer President
- Narrated by: Edward Lewis
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
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Summary
This unique intellectual portrait explores the role of ideas in Lincoln’s life. Guelzo presents Lincoln as a serious thinker deeply involved in the problems of 19th-century thought, including those of classical liberalism, the Lockean Enlightenment, Victorian unbelief, and Calvinist spirituality. Lincoln emerges as a philosophical man who appropriates certain religious values without adhering to any religion, who insists on the pre-eminence of self-interest in spite of becoming the Great Emancipator, and who appeals to natural law and natural theology in politics while remaining a classical 19th-century liberal in principle. Based on primary materials from a wide variety of archives, this insightful work sheds light on the intellectual conflicts that led to civil war and that still influence today’s “culture wars.”
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- Alan Michael Forrester
- 08-07-13
A great account of Abraham Lincoln's ideas
"Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President" by Allen C. Guelzo is a book about Abraham Lincoln's ideas. Guelzo explains that lincoln's opposition to slavery started from his opposition to being pigeonholed into the same subsistence farming lifestyle as his father. This helps explain many otherwise puzzling features of Lincoln's career, like the fact that he acted a lawyer for a slaveowner who wanted to reclaim a runaway slave before he became President. The book also explains his evolving attitude to belief in God.
Edward Lewis reads the book clearly.
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