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16%OFFHarold Holzer - Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory - 9780674064409 - V9780674064409
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Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory

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Description for Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory Hardback. The Emancipation Proclamation is responsible both for Lincoln's being hailed as the Great Emancipator and for his being pilloried by those who consider his once-radical effort at emancipation insufficient. Holzer examines the impact of Lincoln's announcement at the moment of its creation, and then as its meaning has changed over time. Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 256 pages, 29 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.

Emancipating Lincoln seeks a new approach to the Emancipation Proclamation, a foundational text of American liberty that in recent years has been subject to woeful misinterpretation. These seventeen hundred words are Lincoln’s most important piece of writing, responsible both for his being hailed as the Great Emancipator and for his being pilloried by those who consider his once-radical effort at emancipation insufficient and half-hearted.

Harold Holzer, an award-winning Lincoln scholar, invites us to examine the impact of Lincoln’s momentous announcement at the moment of its creation, and then as its meaning has changed over time. Using neglected original sources, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674064409
SKU
V9780674064409
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About Harold Holzer
Harold Holzer is Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.

Reviews for Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory
Lincoln published a preliminary proclamation on September 22, 1862, warning Confederate states of his intention to issue a final edict on January 1… Holzer argue[s] persuasively that the progression of events during that critical autumn of the war were full of contingencies and that the final outcome was by no means certain… Provide[s] detailed and careful renderings of these events ... Read more

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