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This unique intellectual family portrait explores the role of ideas in Lincoln's life. Guelzo presents Lincoln as a significant thinker deeply involved in the problems of 19th-century thought, including those of traditional liberalism, the Lockean Enlightenment, Victorian unbelief, and Calvinist spirituality. Lincoln emerges as a philosophical man who appropriates certain spiritual values without sticking with any faith, who insists on the pre-eminence of self-interest regardless of becoming the fantastic Emancipator, and who appeals to natural regulation and natural theology in politics while staying a traditional 19th-century liberal in basic principle. Based on most important materials from a wide variety of archives, this insightful work sheds light on the intellectual conflicts that resulted in civil war and this still affect today's "culture wars."
