Bøger af Richard Carwardine

In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation's sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a 'new birth of freedom'. Lincoln's Unfinished Work analyses how the United States has attempted to realize - or subvert - that promise over the past century and a half.

The focus of this book is on English and American evangelicals during the early and mid-19th century, examining the effect of aggressive conversion techniques used by American evangelicals upon the English revival movement.

Leader of the anti-slavery Republican coalition and the wartime Union, Abraham Lincoln has become a model of a particular kind of democratic politician who led rather than followed. Richard J. Carwardine examines Lincoln's rise to power and his achievements as US president.