Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation by Allen C Guelzo

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation by Allen C Guelzo

One of the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars offers an authoritative consideration of the document that represents the most far-reaching accomplishment of our greatest president.

No single official paper in American history changed the lives of as many Americans as Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. But no American document has been held up to greater suspicion. Its bland and lawyerlike language is unfavorably compared to the soaring eloquence of the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural; its effectiveness in freeing the slaves has been dismissed as a legal illusion. And for some African-Americans the Proclamation raises doubts about Lincoln himself.

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation dispels the myths and mistakes surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation and skillfully reconstructs how America's greatest president wrote the greatest American proclamation of freedom.

The Henry R. Guelzo Award goes to Allen C. Guelzo. Gettysburg College's Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies. He is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, and Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, all of which have won the Lincoln Prize three times.

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ISBN 13	9780743299657
ISBN 10	0743299655
Title	Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
Author	Allen C Guelzo
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2006-11-07
Number of pages	400
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