Lincoln lessons : reflections on America's greatest leader / / edited by Frank J. Williams and William D. Pederson.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Williams, Frank J.; Pederson, William D., 1946-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: vii, 184 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Getting right with Mary Lincoln: or, how a first lady taught me to be a feminist / Jean H. Baker -- Lincoln on democracy / Mario M. Cuomo -- A view from the Lincoln museum / Joan Flinspach -- The evolution of a Lincoln editor / Sara Vaughn Gabbard -- Transforming foes to allies: the political alchemy of Lincoln / Doris Kearns Goodwin -- The Lincoln visual image: a personal journey of discovery / Harold V. Jaffa -- Lincoln through the eyes of a civil war and civil rights historian / John F. Marszalek -- Lincoln's legacy for our time / James M. McPherson -- Lincoln and African American memory / Edna Greene Medford -- Suspension of habeas corpus / Sandra Day O'Connor -- Lincoln and the meaning of equality: how I became a "lost cause" apostate / Mackubin Thomas Owens -- Crossing borders to an international Lincoln / William D. Pederson -- Tell me what you want to believe, and I'll tell you what you will believe / Edward Steers Jr. -- Sixteen feet tall: Abraham Lincoln and history / Craig L. Symonds -- Historian, editor, and the assassination legacy / Thomas Reed Turner -- The compleat Lincolnator: enthusiast, collector, and scholar / Frank J. Williams.