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The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and the president's constitutional war powers went to the heart of Lincoln's presidency. James Simon, author of the acclaimed What Kind of Nation — an account of the battle between President Thomas Jefferson and Chief Justice John Marshall to define the new nation — brings to vivid life the passionate struggle during the worst crisis in the nation's history, the Civil War. The issues that underlaid that crisis — race, states' rights, and the president's wartime authority — resonate today in the nation's political debate. Lincoln and Taney's bitter disagreements began with Taney's Dred Scott opinion in 1857, when the chief justice declared that the Constitution did not grant the black man any rights that the white man was bound to honor. In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln attacked the opinion as a warped judicial interpretation of the Framers' intent and accused Taney of being a member of a pro-slavery national conspiracy. In his first inaugural address, President Lincoln insisted that the South had no legal right to secede. Taney, who administered the oath of off

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Author

James F. Simon

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743298469

Category

history

Subjects

History, Law, Humanities

Rating

4.5 / 5 (53 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14