Claiming Lincoln Progressivism, Equality, and the Battle for Lincoln's Legacy in Presidential Rhetoric

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English | ISBN: 0875804357 | 2011 | 243 pages | EPUB | 276 KB
Abraham Lincoln is clearly one of the most frequently cited figures in American political rhetoric, especially with regard to issues of equality. But given the ubiquity of Lincoln's legacy, many references to him, even on the presidential level, are often of questionable accuracy. In Claiming Lincoln, Jividen posits that in much twentieth-century presidential rhetoric, especially from progressive leaders, Lincoln's understanding of equality is slowly divorced from its grounding in the natural rights thinking of the American Founding and reinterpreted in light of progressive history.