Books by Eric Foner
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English
review 1: It's nice to read a beautifully written and researched book about Lincoln that's not quite as throne-sniffy as others, but the basic premise of the thing seems completely implausible to me. The notion that Lincoln grew personally, rather than in terms of what he thought he could ...
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English
review 1: Lincoln said, “Freedom is one thing to the fox and something entirely different to the chickens.” Foner states, “increasingly, the idea of liberty lost its traditional association with privileges derived from membership in a distinct social class and became more and more identif...