Lincoln's Enduring Legacy Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment

Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds have influenced the pursuit of justice and freedom and the practice of democracy in the century and a half since he governed. Lincoln, as an abolitionist, the architect of Reconstruction, an avowed Unionist, a wordsmith and rhetorician, his age's foremost prophet for democracy, and America's greatest president remains an iconic image in American memory.

Robert P. Watson is professor of American studies at Lynn University. William D. Pederson is the American studies chair at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Frank J. Williams is former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island and was appointed by Congress to serve on the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.