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Summary
Summary
In this, his last work, J. David Greenstone provides an important new analysis of American liberalism and of Lincoln's unique contribution to the nation's political life. Greenstone addresses Louis Hartz's well-known claim that a tradition of liberal consensus has characterized American political life from the time of the founders. Although he acknowledges the force of Hartz's thesis, Greenstone nevertheless finds it inadequate for explaining prominent instances of American political discord, most notably the Civil War.
Originally published in 1993.
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Table of Contents
| List of Charts and Tables | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Editor's Note | |
| Introduction to the Book | |
| 1 The Lincoln Myth Reconsidered | p. 9 |
| Lincoln's Ulterior Motives | p. 12 |
| Lincoln's Devotion to Liberty and Union | p. 16 |
| Lincoln's Principle of Action | p. 18 |
| Lincoln's Motives and Principle | p. 21 |
| The Problem of Political Conflict: Lincoln vs. Douglas | p. 26 |
| Lincoln's Principle as a Political Solution | p. 31 |
| 2 American Political Culture: Liberal Consensus or Liberal Polarity? | p. 35 |
| American Exceptionalism: The Consensus Thesis | p. 36 |
| A Philosophical Critique: Multiple Meanings and Descriptions | p. 48 |
| The Bipolarity in American Liberalism | p. 50 |
| The Liberal Polarity: Conflicting Dispositions | p. 63 |
| 3 Adams and Jefferson: A Shared Liberalism | p. 71 |
| Friendship, Rivalry, Friendship | p. 71 |
| The Problem of Adams's Liberalism | p. 73 |
| The Multiple Declensions of New England Culture | p. 76 |
| The Founding Synthesis | p. 78 |
| Equality and the Liberal Polarity | p. 90 |
| 4 Adams, Jefferson, and the Slavery Paradox | p. 95 |
| The Slavery Paradox | p. 96 |
| Liberalism and the Issue of Slavery | p. 105 |
| 5 William Leggett: Process, Utility, and Laissez-Faire | p. 124 |
| Jacksonian Politics and Humanist Liberal Principles | p. 124 |
| Laissez-Faire: Leggett's Attenuated Republicanism | p. 127 |
| Leggett's Humanist Liberalism: Preferences and Process | p. 130 |
| Slavery | p. 133 |
| 6 Stephen A. Douglas and Popular Sovereignty | p. 140 |
| Jacksonian Politics and Humanist Liberalism | p. 141 |
| Douglas's Attenuated Republicanism | p. 145 |
| Preference Coordination | p. 148 |
| Slavery | p. 150 |
| 7 Martin Van Buren's Humanist Liberal Theory of Party | p. 154 |
| Jacksonian Democrat and Humanist Liberal | p. 155 |
| Van Buren's Humanist Liberal Theory of Party | p. 158 |
| Van Buren's Attenuated Republicanism | p. 169 |
| Slavery | p. 172 |
| Van Buren's Failure: Slavery and Preference Coordination | p. 179 |
| 8 John Quincy Adams | p. 191 |
| Adams's Whiggish Loyalties | p. 192 |
| Adams and Slavery | p. 196 |
| Adams's Liberalism | p. 198 |
| Reform Liberalism and Politics | p. 205 |
| 9 Lincoln and the North's Commitment to Liberty and Union | p. 222 |
| Douglas: Negative Liberty and a Quantitative Union | p. 223 |
| Webster: Positive Liberty and a Qualitative Union | p. 226 |
| Lincoln on Liberty and Union: A Conceptual Connection | p. 230 |
| Conclusion: Rule Ambiguity and Liberal Politics | p. 240 |
| 10 Lincoln's Political Humanitarianism: Moral Reform and the Covenant Tradition | p. 244 |
| Lincoln's Political Ethic | p. 245 |
| Lincoln's Protestant Ethic | p. 258 |
| Conclusion: Lincoln's Piety | p. 282 |
| Epilogue | p. 284 |
| References | p. 287 |
| Index | p. 299 |