Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction | Allen C. Guelzo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction Author: Allen C. Guelzo Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents. Guelzo takes us on a wide-ranging exploration of problems that confronted Lincoln and liberal democracy—equality, opportunity, the rule of law, slavery, freedom, peace, and his legacy. The Lincoln we meet here is an Enlightenment figure who struggled to create a common ground between a people focused on individual rights and a society eager to establish a certain moral, philosophical, and intellectual bedrock. Lincoln insisted that liberal democracy had a higher purpose, which was the realization of a morally right political order. But how to interject that sense of moral order into a system that values personal self-satisfaction—'the pursuit of happiness'—remains a fundamental dilemma even today. Guelzo paints a marvelous portrait of this Lincoln—Lincoln the man of ideas—providing new insights into one of the giants of American history.