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Abraham Lincoln
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- Narrated by: Edward Lewis
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
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Publisher's 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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- Reformed Reader
- 2017-03-15
Allen Guelzo is always superb
Anything written by Allen Guelzo is always superb and to be trusted. Not only does his writing flow, but his analysis is sensitive, discerning and penetrating. It is always a joy for me to read anything written by Dr. Guelzo.
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- Greg Lukis
- 2023-08-16
Great book, bad narration
The contents of this book is scholarly and very interesting. But since this is an audio book, I wish to speak to that. I have heard Prof. Guelzo teach in the Great Courses, and I was hoping he narrated his own book. He has a way of engaging you. His tone, his inflections give the sense; they add a spirit to his words. The narration of this audio book, on the other hand, sounds more like a sewing machine than anything else.
It is a great book. I will buy the hard copy and read it myself.
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- Joy Bugg
- 2017-09-17
A Full and Beautiful Picture
Never have I learned so much about a person I thought I already knew. This is a great book on Audible as it makes all the details flow into a story without the common monotony sometimes accompanying long biographies. Made me love Lincoln even more.
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- RANDALL S WALKER
- 2023-10-28
great synopsis of a great president
this book is a precise synopsis of a great thinker who got the USA through the worst period of its history correcting a glaring self-contradiction of our national creed - slavery. only a man as capable as Lincoln could have used the simple methods available at that time to solve this monstrous problem. a well organized explanation of what Lincoln did and how he got in this position for beginner historians like me. great book for curious Americans
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- cama
- 2023-03-17
Okay, but not riveting
After listening to the interesting and dynamic Gettysburg by Guelzo, I rather expected the same caliber material in this book. I did not find it so. The narration was dismal, and I thought the focus on Lincoln’s religiosity, or more precisely, lack thereof, overdone. I listened to the entire presentation in the hopes that at some point a spark akin to that in Guelzo’s Gettysburg would ignite, but it never did for me.
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- George
- 2021-12-18
Great book on Lincoln, a must read
This is an extremely thoughtful analysis of Abraham Lincoln. It is so well-written that it overcomes the awful, robotic reading. I would highly recommend, just push through the presentation.
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