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December, 2006
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Lincoln's Defense of Politics
The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis Over Slavery

By Thomas E. Schneider
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. x, 224. Abbreviations, notes, works cited, index. $39.95.)

"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," declared Senator Daniel Webster in 1830, in a speech memorized by generations of schoolchildren well into the next century. This sentiment, largely uncontested since the Civil War, could not be taken for granted by Webster or his contemporaries. In fact, many people of his time viewed union and liberty as entirely different—even mutually exclusive—considerations. It was Abraham Lincoln who achieved the intellectual and political formulation that allowed the durable marriage of the two ideas in the body politic, an achievement brought into focus by this valuable little book. . . .
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