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A collection of original essays by ten eminent historians that explore religion, education, middle-class family life, the antislavery movement, politics, and law in "Lincoln's America."
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A nuanced psychological portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles. Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk’s Lincoln’s Melancholy reveals how this illness influenced both the President’s character and his leadership. Mired in personal suffering as a young man, Lincoln forged a hard path toward mental health. Shenk draws on seven years of research from historical record, interviews with Lincoln scholars, and contemporary research on depression to understand the nature of Lincoln’s unhappiness. In the process, Shenk discovers that the President’s coping strategies—...
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This text examines the ideology of elite lawyers and judges from the Gilded Age to the New Deal. Between 1866 and 1937, this coherent outlook, or legal orthodoxy, shaped the way the American bar interpreted and understood the law.