Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory

by Harold Holzer

Book Overview

Emancipating Lincoln seeks a new approach to the Emancipation Proclamation, a foundational text of American liberty that in recent years has been subject to woeful misinterpretation. These seventeen hundred words are Lincoln's most important piece of writing, responsible both for his being hailed as the Great Emancipator and for his being pilloried by those who consider his once-radical effort at emancipation insufficient and half-hearted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674064402
• ISBN13: 9780674064409
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.4"