| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman. By William Lee Miller. (New York: Knopf, 2008. x, 497 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-1-4000-4103-9.)

Historians of nineteenth-century America generally agree that Abraham Lincoln was one of the greatest presidents. Few, however, have gone as far as William Lee Miller in their praise of the sixteenth president. Miller presents a convincing defense of Lincoln's moral greatness and his ability to mobilize his administration and Congress, as well as northern public opinion. Essentially, he develops the same themes he introduced in Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography (2002), which examines the "shaping moral choices" of Lincoln's pre-presidential years (p. xvi). In President Lincoln, Miller looks at selective episodes during his presidency, based on Lincoln's writings, John Nicolay and John Hay's Lincoln biography (Abraham Lincoln: A History, 10 vols. 1890), war and naval records, and key secondary interpretations by Mark Neely, David Donald, and others.

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