Table of Contents: A new birth of freedom :

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jaffa, Harry V.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2000.
Subjects and Genres:	Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865. Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865. > Gettysburg address. Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Inauguration, 1861. Presidents > United States > Election > 1860. United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
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Table of Contents:

The election of 1800 and the election of 1860
The Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and historians
The divided American mind on the eve of conflict: James Buchanan, Jefferson Davis, and Alexander Stephens survey the crisis
The mind of Lincoln's Inaugural and the argument and action of the debate that shaped it, I
The mind of Lincoln's Inaugural and the argument and action of the debate that shaped it, II
July 4, 1861: Lincoln tells why the Union must be preserved
Slavery, succession, and state rights: the political teaching of John C. Calhoun
Appendix: "The dividing line between Federal and local authority: popular sovereignty in the territories": a commentary.