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University Press of Kansas Lincoln and Democratic Statesmanship (Constitutional Thinking)

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Our ideas of statesmanship are fraught with seeming contradictions: The democratic statesman is true to the people's wishes and views - but also capable of standing against popular opinion when necessary. The statesman rises above conflicts and seeks compromise between parties - but also stands firmly for what is right. Abraham Lincoln, perhaps more than any other political figure in US history, affords us an opportunity to evaluate the philosophical, political, and practical implications of these paradoxical propositions. Asking whether and how Lincoln acted in a statesmanly manner at critical moments, the authors of this volume aim to clarify what precisely statesmanship might be; their work illuminates important themes and events in Lincoln's career even as it broadens and sharpens our understanding of the general nature of statesmanship. One of Lincoln's abiding themes was foreshadowed in his Lyceum Address, delivered when he was not yet thirty: the call for the prevalence of a sort of public opinion that he characterized as a political religion. As it relates to democratic statesmanship, what does Lincoln's political religion have to do with religion per se? How, in his role as statesman as a master of democratic speech, did Lincoln handle the two major issues he faced as a political leader: slavery and the war? In attempting to meet the demand that he use acceptable means to achieve his ends, did Lincoln - can any statesman - keep his hands clean? Are there inevitable transgressions that a statesman must commit? These are among the topics the authors take on as they consider Lincoln's democratic and rhetorical statesmanship, on occasion drawing comparisons with his contemporaries Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas or even such a distant forerunner as Pericles. Finally, framing statesmanship in terms of three factors - knowledge of the political good of a community, circumstance, and the best possible action in light of these two - this volume renders a nuanced, deeply informed judgment on what distinguishes Lincoln as a statesman, and what distinguishes a statesman from a (mere) politician.

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Brand: University Press of Kansas
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0700629386
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > United States
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 May 2020
Listed Since: 19 November 2019

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