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Abraham Lincoln


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  1. Roy P. Basler, The Lincoln Legend: A Study in Changing Conceptions (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1935), 25-26, 45-49; Don E. Fehrenbacher, Lincoln in Text and Content: Collected Essays (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987), 229.
  2. Benjamin P. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953), 4.
  3. Emanuel Hertz, ed., Lincoln Talks: A Biography in Anecdote (New York: Viking Press, 1939), 3.
  4. William H. Herndon and Jesse Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life 3 vols. (Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Company, 1889), I: 35; Douglas L. Wilson, "Abraham Lincoln and 'That Fatal First of January,'" Civil War History 38, no. 2 (June 1992): 104-106.
  5. Gabor S. Boritt, "Lincoln's Opposition to the Mexican War," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 67 (February 1974): 91; Paul Findley, A. Lincoln: The Crucible of Congress (New York: Crown Publishers, 1979), 124, 130, 138-139.
  6. Richard Striner, The Civic Deal: Re-Empowering Our Great Republic (Washington, D.C.: The Pericles Institute, 2000), 68-71.
  7. Ibid., 70-72.
  8. Henry Steele Commager, ed., Documents of American History (New York: Crofts, 1945), Document no. 186, 345.
  9. Richard Striner, The Civic Deal, 71-72.
  10. Christopher Dell, Lincoln and the War Democrats: The Grand Erosion of Conservative Tradition (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1975), chapters 4-6; Richard Striner, The Civic Deal, 76, 77-78.
  11. Richard Striner, The Civic Deal, 72-76.
  12. Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 9 vols. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), VI: 410; Arthur Zilversmit, ed., Lincoln on Black and White: A Documentary History (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1971), introduction, 42.
  13. Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, VIII: 356; Ernest Lee Tuveson, Redeemer Nation: The Idea of America's Millennial Role (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968), 206-208; Don E. Fehrenbacher, Lincoln in Text and Content, 162-163; Richard Striner, The Civic Deal, 79-80.
  14. James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 852-853.