| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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Harry V. Jaffa. A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2000. Pp. xiv, 550. $35.00.

Do we need another book on Abraham Lincoln? When the author is Harry V. Jaffa, the answer, most assuredly, is yes. Here is the long-awaited sequel to Jaffa's Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1959), which remains the best analysis of the ideas in that contest. The new book traces the political thought of Lincoln and his contemporaries from the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 to the beginning of the Civil War in July 1861, though Jaffa sometimes strays back to the American Revolution and ancient Greece and forward to the twentieth century. As in his earlier book, he takes seriously the ideas of leading figures of the nineteenth century, and he holds nothing back about his own preferences. . . .

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