Abraham Lincoln, Allen C. Guelzo
Abraham Lincoln, Allen C. Guelzo
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Abraham Lincoln
Redeemer President

Author: Allen C. Guelzo

Narrator: Edward Lewis

Unabridged: 18 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/10/2011


Synopsis

This unique intellectual portrait explores the role of ideas in Lincolns life. Guelzo presents Lincoln as a serious thinker deeply involved in the problems of nineteenthcentury 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 preeminence of selfinterest in spite of becoming the Great Emancipator, and who appeals to natural law and natural theology in politics while remaining a classical nineteenthcentury 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 todays culture wars.

About Allen C. Guelzo

Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. Three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize, he is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, and Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction.


Reviews

Goodreads review by robin on February 13, 2023

An Intellectual And Religious Biography Of Lincoln Biographies of Abraham Lincoln have tended to fall into two broad categories. The first category consists of biographies of the "subjective" Lincoln. These biographies are based largely on the many anecdotes and stories people told about Lincoln's li......more

Goodreads review by Bill on January 24, 2023

I read the new second edition of this 1999 book, which is “updated and revised with a new preface.” The updates, Guelzo explains in his preface, are mostly just minor factual corrections in the text. The preface itself is essentially a continuation of the original's note on sources, in which Guelzo......more

Goodreads review by Mark on April 25, 2018

Nothing less than a tour-de-force. I'm tempted to say that only a religious person—particularly a Christian—could understand this almost certainly unbelieving politician and thinker. Guelzo finds a theme in Lincoln's theology that he, successfully in my opinion, traces throughout his life, namely a......more

Goodreads review by Urey on July 10, 2014

Abraham Lincoln is one of my historical heroes – perhaps my favorite historical figure. I would not have thought much new or fresh could be written about Lincoln, but Allen Guelzo proves me wrong. This book is less a biography or a history, and more a narrative Lincoln’s intellectual and spiritual e......more

Goodreads review by David on January 02, 2024

Allen Guelzo arguably lists as one of the top three contemporary Lincoln scholars, with many Lincoln writings to his credit. It didn’t start that way. His earliest degrees were in biblical studies and church history before turning to more secular history, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War. We are a......more