- Harold Laswell and Abraham Kaplan, Power and Society, is an indispensable preliminary to any full discussion of this problem.
- Lindsay , A. D. , ed. 1935 . The point is rooted in Plato's discussion of "necessary lies" and "noble falsehoods." The Republic , 99 New York : Everyman . ; but compare B. R Comford (New York: Oxford), p. 106; and A. Bloom (New York: Basic Books, 1968), pp. 93-94.
- Cf. Jeffrey Tullis, The Rhetorical Presidency(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987).
- Warren , Louis . 1964 . Lincoln's Gettysburg Declaration , Fort Wayne : Lincoln National Life Foundation . The historical circumstances leading to the composition and delivery of the Address have been largely ascertained by careful investigators, and are of little relevance to its modern day interpretation, other than to affirm that Lincoln did his work with care and received considerable immediate acknowledgment of its merits. See
- Klement , Frank . 1973 . The Gettysburg Soldier's Cemetry , Shippenburg, PA : White Manse .
- Wills , Carry . 1992 . Lincoln at Gettysburg , New York Touchtone .
- Braden , Waldo . 1988 . Abraham Lincoln Public Speaker , Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press .
- 1957 . Consult especially Bernard Anderson, Understanding the Old Testament , Englewood Cliffs : Prentice Hall . ), Chapter 3, but also,
- Pedersen , J. 1926 . Israel , Oxford : Oxford University Press .
- Bellah , R. N. 1979 . The Broken Covenant , New York Seabury Press .
- Beard , Charles . 1913 . An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution , New York : Macmillan . ), but also the whole controversy about the book, see
- Brown , Robert E. 1979 . Charles Beard and the Constitution , Westport : Greenwood Press .
- Thurow , Glenn . 1976 . Abraham Lincoln and American Political Religion , Albany : SUNY Press . See importantly,
- Becker , Carl . 1958 . The Declaration of Independence , New York : Vintage . For Jefferson's involvement in this issue, consult what is still the most valuable single work on the Declaration,
- Cole , Arthur . 1934 . The Irrepressible Conflict , New York : Macmillan . On the whole complex question of "why Civil War," start with
- Craven , Avery . 1939 . The Repressible Conflict , Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press .
- 1893 . "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" , American Historical Association . The reference is deliberately to Frederick Jackson Turner's famed essay, in which Turner pairs his assertion of the primacy of the frontier in the formation of the American character to a secondary assertion that slavery was but an "incident" in the course of the nation's development
- Randall , James G. 1945 . Lincoln the President , New York : Dodd Mead . Lincoln's own views on slavery are notoriously difficult to pin down. That he deplored the institution generally cannot be disputed. It is also clear that he thought freed Blacks should, despite a certain racial "moral inferiority," have full political rights. Intermittently, he favored "colonization with compensation," a plan for snipping Blacks overseas after compensating their former owners. It is also on the record that he firmly told a delegation of Blacks that he did not think the two races could live together after abolition. It should also be noted that by the end of the war, some 10% of the Union forces were Blacks-but only in White officered units-and were generally underpaid, poorly clothed and sometimes under armed, and that Lincoln did little to correct this situation. Consult any of the standard Civil War histories, and/or Lincoln biographies, e.g.
- Jaffa , Harry V. 1973 . The Crisis of the House Divided , Seattle : University of Washington Press . but also more particularly,
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