| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. By Allen C. Guelzo. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. xii, 516 pp. $29.00, ISBN 0-8028-3872-3.)

There are many Abraham Lincolns: Lincoln the opportunist, Lincoln the pious, Lincoln the tyrant, Lincoln the racial progressive, Lincoln the white supremacist, Lincoln the passive actor, even Lincoln the parricide. While the title of Allen C. Guelzo's lively biography suggests that we can add "Lincoln the redeemer" to that incomplete list, readers should note that Guelzo uses his descriptor with a degree of irony. The man whose assassination on Good Friday 1865 sparked a plethora of sermons equating his death with that of Christ on the cross was, it seems, a typical Victorian skeptic, poised uneasily between the stern Calvinism of his father and the secular liberalism of the age. . . .

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