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A new birth of freedom
Abraham Lincoln and the coming of the Civil War
By Jaffa, Harry V.
- ISBN
- 978-0-84769-952-0
- Publisher
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2000
After 40 years of ruminating on Abraham Lincoln and the coming of the Civil War, Jaffa has produced the sequel to his acclaimed A Crisis of the House Divided (1959). The author returns to the spoken and written record to discover how and why the Union came apart and how and why Lincoln, more than anyone else, made the case for the moral obligation to put it back together. Jaffa casts his study in the mode of a medieval commentary, parsing the words of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
