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Book

Lincoln on leadership for today : Abraham Lincoln's approach to twenty-first-century issues

Call Number

  • 973.7 P5588 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

Physical Description

viii, 324 pages ; 22 cm

Contents

  • A just and generous and prosperous system
  • Nonintervention in other countries as a sacred principle of international law
  • To emancipate the mind
  • Rising with the occasion
  • The eternal struggle between right and wrong
  • The tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants
  • The better angels of our nature
  • With firmness in the right
  • The middle ground
  • No less than national
  • The fiery trial
  • The thunderbolt
  • A more elevated position
  • A fair chance in the race of life
  • This terrible, bloody war
  • With malice toward none
  • Peace with all nations.

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