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13-03-2017 | Book Review
Allen C. Guelzo, Redeeming the Great Emancipator
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 189 pp. $22.95. ISBN: 978–0674286115
Published in: Society | Issue 2/2017
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Abstract
In the latest of his many books on Lincoln, Allen C. Guelzo argues that the “redeemer president” is himself in need of redemption—redemption from a contemporary mindset that refuses to acknowledge moral indebtedness. Challenging various falsifications of the past, from the neo-abolitionist claim of “self emancipation” to simplistic accounts of the postwar failure of emancipation, Guelzo offers a richly textured and fearless brief for Lincoln’s crucial role in emancipation.