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Description of  Redeeming the Great Emancipator (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)

The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great Emancipator during the Civil War. Yet this noble aspect of Lincolns identity is precisely the dimension that some historians have cast into doubt. In a vigorous defense of Americas sixteenth president, award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo refutes accusations of Lincolns racism and political opportunism, while candidly probing the follies of contemporary cynicism and the constraints of todays unexamined faith in the liberating powers of individual autonomy. Read more