Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream

Dust jacket notes: "Professor Boritt presents in carefully documented detail Lincoln's economic concerns before he attained national prominence and demonstrates how these early concerns helped shape Lincoln's view of slaver, his conduct of the war, and most fundamentally his understanding of what the United States was and could become. Having raised significant new questions about the importance of Lincoln's economic outlook, Boritt utilizes great ingenuity in providing answers. In a historiographical essay he considers why this rich material has been neglected. His patient scholarship does much toward reshaping our perception of Lincoln."