Lincoln's Unfinished Work
Carwardine, Richard / Catalano, Joshua Casmir / Downs, Greg / Foner, Eric / haller, william / Harris, J. William / Kantrowitz, Stephen / Loewen, James / McDonnell, Lawrence / Petty, Adrienne
In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation's sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a "new birth of freedom." Lincoln's Unfinished Work analyzes how the United States has attempted to realize-or subvert-that promise over the past century and a half. The volume is not solely about Lincoln, or the immediate unfinished work of Reconstruction, or the broader unfinished work of America coming to terms with its tangle...