Lincolns virtues an ethical biography
My reading on this trip has been “Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography,” by William Lee Miller.
William Lee Miller's ethical biography is a fresh, engaging telling of the story of Lincoln's rise to power.!
William Lee Miller. Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
It is the central thrust of this “ethical biography” to reveal how he became both, to trace his moral and intellectual development in the context of his times.Pp. xvi, 515.
James Tackach. Lincoln's Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural Address. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. Pp. xxvii, 176.
Ronald C. White, Jr. Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural.
William Lee Miller's ethical biography is a fresh, engaging telling of the story of Lincoln's rise to power.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Pp. 254.
Abraham Lincoln's religious and moral views are of perennial interest to students of history and statesmanship. Lincoln never formally joined a particular religious sect, yet is renowned for his knowledge and use of Scripture.
He is thought by many to have been a magnanimous man, yet emerged from the most humble of origins. His intellectual virtues were as imposing as his moral virtues, earning him a reputation while in Congress as the bookworm among his fellow legislators.[1] He generally preferred to deliberate over ethical and religious questions rather than insist upon divisive answers to them.[2] He avoided both unmanly c