Lincoln at Two Hundred: Why We Still Read the Sixteenth President (American Enterprise Institute's Bradley Lecture Series)

Berns, Walter

ISBN 10: 084474364X / ISBN 13: 9780844743646

Published by AEI Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lincoln at Two Hundred: Why We Still Read the Sixteenth President (American Enterprise Institute's Bradley Lecture Series)
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 084474364X
• ISBN 13: 9780844743646
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 2 ounces

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Synopsis

"We say that a man can be known by the company he keeps. So I say that a nation, a people, can be known and be judged by its heroes, by whom it honors above all others."
Abraham Lincoln was the greatest of our presidents. He saved the Union, and because he saved the Union, he was able to free the slaves. But he did more than this. Without him, we might have had no reason to celebrate the bicentennial first of the Declaration of Independence and then of the Constitution. It is therefore altogether fitting that we mark the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth.
Part of the Bradley Lecture Series.
Lincoln at Two Hundred was presented on February 9, 2009, as part of the American Enterprise Institute's Bradley Lecture Series, which aims to enrich debate in the Washington policy community through exploration of the philosophical and historical underpinnings of current controversies.

About the Author

Walter Berns is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor emeritus at Georgetown University. A renowned scholar of political philosophy and constitutional law, he is the author of numerous books on democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution.