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Pulitzer Prize, Record, 2011 On this landmark work of profound scholarship and understanding, Eric Foner provides us the definitive background of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in the us. Foner commences with Lincoln's children in Indiana and Illinois and follows the trajectory of his profession across an increasingly tense and shifting political terrain from Illinois to Washington, D.C. Although "naturally anti-slavery" for so long as he can remember, Lincoln scrupulously contains to the positioning that the Constitution protects the establishment in the initial slave states. However the political scenery is altered in 1854 when the Kansas-Nebraska Act makes the growth of slavery a national issue. A man of considered words and deliberate activities, Lincoln navigates the energetic politics deftly, taking assessed steps, often along a avenue forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party. Lincoln rises to leadership in the new Republican Party by calibrating his politics to the broadest possible antislavery coalition. As president of the divided region and commander in main at war, showing a similar ingredient of pragmatism and basic principle, Lincoln finally embraces what he phone calls the Civil War's "fundamental and astounding" result: the immediate, uncompensated abolition of slavery and acknowledgement of blacks as Americans. Foner's Lincoln emerges as a innovator, one whose greatness lies in his capacity for moral and politics expansion through real engagement with allies and critics equally. This powerful work will enhance our understanding of the nation's most significant president and the issue that mattered most.
