Richard Carwardine
Autor de Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power
Sobre El Autor
Richard Carwardine is the Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University.
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- Carwardine, Richard J.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1947-01-12
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- male
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- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Cardiff, Wales, UK
- Educación
- University of California, Berkeley
Queen's College, Oxford
Corpus Christi College, Oxford - Ocupaciones
- historian
university professor - Organizaciones
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Worshipful Company of Haberdashers - Premios y honores
- FRHistS [Fellow, Royal Historical Society]
FBA [Fellow, British Academy]
FLSW [Fellow, Learned Society of Wales]
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Lincoln had an early political career as a representative in the Illinois State House, followed by one term as U.S. Congressman and a losing bid for the U.S. Senate highlighted by his debates with Democrat Stephen A. Douglas.
He had a lifelong transition in his feelings towards slavery highlighted by his support of the Wilmot Proviso to exclude territory acquired by The Mexican American War, his Cooper Union Speech, his stand against the Kansas Nebraska Act, his continuing evolution while President culminating in the initial Emancipation Proclamation and final Proclamation, and the platform for his reelection calling for an Amendment Abolishing Slavery.
Lincoln was a master political strategist who never lost his connection to the common man who used his early political stumping and traveling the circuit as a lawyer. His reading of numerous newspapers while in office, meeting with soldiers, and meeting with clergymen of various denominations.
It was Lincoln's political savvy, his touch with the common man, and masterful use of the Republican political machine to get elected, reelected, and his political agenda passed. He used an increasing political power and centralization of executive powers brought in by the Civil War expertly, but not with capriciousness.
A novel approach most like David Reynolds recent biography Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times. An excellent biography which I heartily endorse for those interested in a interesting biography on Lincoln.… (más)