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  • Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times

    by Andrew Fear, Brian Sandberg, Jay Smith, Jerry Salyer, Jeffrey Church, Pedro Blas Gonzales, Geoffrey M. Vaughan, Ian Crowe, Jonathan M. Wales, John F. Devanny, Noah Stengl, Jay Langdale ...
    Series series Political Theory for Today
    Great statesmen and gentlemen, men of honor and rank, seem to be phenomena of a bygone Aristocratic era. Aristocracies, which emphasize rank, and value difference, quality, beauty, rootedness, continuity, stand in direct contrast to democracies, which value equality, autonomy, novelty, standardization, quantity, utility and mobility. Is there any place for aristocratic values and virtues in the ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Lincoln's Continuing Revolution: Essays of M.E. Bradford and Thomas H. Landess

    by M.E. Bradford, Thomas H. Landess, John Devanny ...
    ABRAHAM LINCOLN LOOKS DOWN ON US in magisterial dominion from his throne in Washington's biggest monument—the American demigod. There is some justice in the symbol, because it was Lincoln who, with rivers of blood, destroyed the old Constitutional Union and founded the American nation that we know. As M.E. Bradford writes: "The truth about the life and death of Lincoln seems to matter very little ... Read more

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    Essays on the Civil War Era

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    A "brilliant" look at America's sixteenth president by the New York Times–bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln ( American Historical Review).First published in 1956 and revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Lincoln Reconsidered is a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship. In a dozen eloquent, witty, and incisive essays, the author of the definitive biography of Abraham ... Read more

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  • Lincoln

    The Biography of a Writer

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    "A fine, invaluable book. . . . It is always instructive to study Lincoln, but now is a particularly good time to consider his devotion to words." —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book WorldFor Abraham Lincoln, whether he was composing love letters, speeches, or legal arguments, words mattered. In Lincoln, acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan explores the life of America's 16th president ... Read more

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  • Crisis of the House Divided

    An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition

    by Harry V. Jaffa ...
    This definitive analysis of the Lincoln-Douglas debates is "one of the most influential works of American history and political philosophy ever published ( National Review).In Crisis of the House Divided, noted conservative scholar and historian Harry V. Jaffa illuminates the political principles that guided Abraham Lincoln from his reentry into politics in 1854 through his Senate campaign ... Read more

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  • Abraham Lincoln

    Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

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  • The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

    by R. B. Bernstein ...
    Here is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the "Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, ... Read more

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  • Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

    by James M. McPherson ...
    James McPherson has emerged as one of America's finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times Book Review, called "history writing of the highest order." In that volume, McPherson gathered in the broad sweep of events, the political, social, and cultural forces at work during the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Lincoln

    A President for the Ages

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    The First American. Frontiersman and backwoods attorney. Teller of bawdy tales and a spellbinding orator. A champion of liberty some called a would-be tyrant. Savior of the Union and the Great Emancipator. All these are Abraham Lincoln -- in his time America's most admired and reviled leader, and still our nation's most enigmatic and captivating hero.Timed to complement the new motion picture ... Read more

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  • Our Ancient Faith

    Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    **An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today—by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize*Winner of the 2024 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize**Finalist for the 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize*"It is altogether fitting and proper that, with this meditation on democracy and ... Read more

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  • The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader

    The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause"

    Edited by James W. Loewen, Edward H. Sebesta ...
    Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans--including most history teachers--think the Confederate States seceded for "states' rights." This error persists because most have never read the key documents about the Confederacy.These documents have always been there. When South ... Read more

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  • A Well-Regulated Militia : The Founding Fathers And The Origins Of Gun Control In America

    by Saul Cornell ...
    Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both sides are wrong. Cornell, a leading ... Read more

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