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The Age of Lincoln

July 9, 2011

Vernon Burton author of The Age of Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln dominated his age but he was also a product of it. The restless, young country into which he was born was a confusion of great passions and ambitions. Religious fervor and a belief in human perfectibility were being tested as the country pushed westward. The expansion of slavery into the west infused politics with a great moral challenge. Award-winning Historian Vernon Burton describes an age that changed a nation.

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Vernon Burton

Vernon Burton

Clemson University
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