For The Vast Future Also

"This volume brings together the most informative and thoughtful articles by fourteen accomplished scholars in the Lincoln field. The essays provide compact, detailed treatments of different facets of three general themes: Lincoln and the problems of emancipation, Lincoln and presidential politics, and the Lincoln legacy. Lincoln's views on race are of central interest, and these essays engage that issue from a variety of perspectives."--BOOK JACKET. "College and university introductory courses will find this book a valuable summary of, and introduction to, the major issues of the Civil War period."--BOOK JACKET.