Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End Of Slavery In America

Allen C. Guelzo

Simon & Schuster, 2005 - History - 400 pages

One of the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars offers an authoritative consideration of the document that represents the most far-reaching accomplishment of our greatest president.

No single official paper in American history changed the lives of as many Americans as Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. But no American document has been held up to greater suspicion. Its bland and lawyerlike language is unfavorably compared to the soaring eloquence of the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural; its effectiveness in freeing the slaves has been dismissed as a legal illusion. And for some African-Americans the Proclamation raises doubts about Lincoln himself.

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation dispels the myths and mistakes surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation and skillfully reconstructs how America's greatest president wrote the greatest American proclamation of freedom.

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User Review  - James Keenley - Goodreads

This is a fascinating and definitive book, written by one of today's greatest Lincoln scholars.

Review: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America

User Review  - Raymond Alldritt - Goodreads

This book was a joy to read. With all the documentation to support his thesis that Lincoln was always determined to end slavery, Guelzo puts to rest so much of the misinformation about Lincoln's vacillation around this issue.

About the author

Allen C. Guelzois the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College, where he also directs the Civil War Era Studies Program and The Gettysburg Semester. He is the author ofAbraham Lincoln: Redeemer President(1999) and Lincoln'sEmancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America(2004), both of which won the Lincoln Prize. He has written essays and reviews forThe Washington Post,The Wall Street Journal,Time, theJournal of American History, and many other publications.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End Of Slavery In America
• Author: Allen C. Guelzo
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2005
• ISBN: 0743262972, 9780743262972
• Length: 400 pages
• Subjects: History / General