On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History

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Yale University Press, 2000年1月1日 - 330页
In this book, John Patrick Diggins, hailed by Alan Ryan in the New York Times, offers a sweeping reassessment of American history, emphasizing the foundational role of Abraham Lincoln’s moral and political theory. Distressed by the divisive impact of modern identity politics, Diggins argues persuasively that in the central tenets of Lincoln’s political faith-the redeeming value of labor and the rights to property and self-determination-we find the purest expression of the values that have united Americans and guided American history.

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Introduction
1
Abraham Lincoln Toward a Synthesis with Foundations
17
Americas Lockean Moment The Revolution and the Spirit of 76
41
American Identity in an Age of Political Correctness
71
American Exceptionalism
101
The Pride and the Pain History in the Classroom and in Public Controversy
127
The Last Best Hope or the Suicide of the West?
152
Politics at the Center Professors at the Peripheries The Legacy of the 1960s
182
What Do Workers Want?
211
Outside Demanding In Women between Republicanism and Lockeanism
236
Black America and the Liberal Tradition
256
The New Self and the Tragic Ambiguity
278
Notes
293
Index
322
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John Patrick Diggins: April 1, 1935 - January 28, 2009 John Patrick Diggins was born in San Francisco on April 1, 1935. He was a professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center, the author of more than a dozen books on widely varied subjects in American intellectual history. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1957, a master's degree at San Francisco State College, and a doctorate at the University of Southern California in 1964. Before accepting a job at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1990, he taught intellectual history at San Francisco State College and the University of California, Irvine. Diggins wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Mussolini and Fascism (1972), On Hallowed Ground (2000), Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire under Democracy (2007), and Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom and the Making of History (2007). He died due to complications of colon cancer on January 28, 2009 at the age of 73.

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