Schneider, Thomas E.: Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis over Slavery.(Book review)
History: Review of New Books, March, 2006 by Mujic, Julie Allison
Schneider, Thomas E. Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis over Slavery Columbia: University of Missouri Press 224 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-8262-1606-4 Publication Date: January 2006
Although Thomas E. Schneider intends for Lincoln's Defense of Politics to serve a political science audience, the book deserves consideration in the arena of historical scholarship as well. Schneider, currently a research associate at Boston University's Editorial Institute, explores how Abraham Lincoln's position and actions concerning slavery differed from the perspectives of two other distinct groups: pro-slavery Americans, who invoked constitutional states' rights, and abolitionists, who contended that moral law surpassed the Constitution in...
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