The Last Best Hope of Earth

Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America

Mark E. Neely, Jr.

    1. Peculiar Ambition

    2. Republican Robe

    3. Commander in Chief

    4. Emancipation

    5. A Free People Conduct a Long War

    6. Politics as Usual

    7. Fate

    Notes

    Index

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Mark E. Neely, Jr., is McCabe-Greer Professor of the History of the Civil War Era, Pennsylvania State University, and the author of a number of books, including his Pulitzer prize-winning The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties.