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The last best hope of earth : Abraham Lincoln and the promise of America by Mark E Neely, Jr.; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Mark E. Neely, Jr., gives us the first compact biography of Abraham Lincoln based on new scholarship. Neely, a Pulitzer prize-winning historian, vividly recaptures the central place of politics in Lincoln's life. Richly illustrated, nuanced and accessible, written with attention to the age in which Lincoln lived, yet ever alert to universal moral questions, this book provides a portrait of Lincoln as an extraordinary man in his own time and ours.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mark E Neely, Jr.; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press ; Huntington Library ; Illinois State Historical Society
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674511262
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.87 / 5 (47 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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