Peoples contest

The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln: Phillip Shaw Paludan, one of the nations foremost authorities on Lincoln and the Civil War, is author of A Peoples Contest: The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865; Victims: A True Story of The Civil War; and A Covenant with Death: The Constitution, Law and Equality in the Civil War Era. American Presidency Series. Winner of the Lincoln prize. "A genuinely new portrai...

This is essentially a Peoples contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men. . . . to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.-Abraham LincolnChosen by Civil War magazine as one of the 200 best books on the war, Phillip Paludans acclai...

This is essentially a Peoples contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men. . . . to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.-Abraham LincolnChosen by Civil War magazine as one of the 200 best books on the war, Phillip Paludans acclai...

This is essentially a Peoples contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men. . . . to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.-Abraham LincolnChosen by Civil War magazine as one of the 200 best books on the war, Phillip Paludans acclai...

This is essentially a Peoples contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men. . . . to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.-Abraham LincolnChosen by Civil War magazine as one of the 200 best books on the war, Phillip Paludans acclai...

This is essentially a Peoples contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men. . . . to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.-Abraham LincolnChosen by Civil War magazine as one of the 200 best books on the war, Phillip Paludans acclai...

This is essentially a Peoples contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men. . . . to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.-Abraham LincolnChosen by Civil War magazine as one of the 200 best books on the war, Phillip Paludans acclai...

This is essentially a Peoples contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men. . . . to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.-Abraham LincolnChosen by Civil War magazine as one of the 200 best books on the war, Phillip Paludans acclai...

This is essentially a Peoples contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men. . . . to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.-Abraham LincolnChosen by Civil War magazine as one of the 200 best books on the war, Phillip Paludans acclai...

This is essentially a Peoples contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men. . . . to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.-Abraham LincolnChosen by Civil War magazine as one of the 200 best books on the war, Phillip Paludans acclai...