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 associate 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 United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

1 Preface2 IntroductionChapter 3 Chapter 1. Lincoln, Leadership, and LegacyPart 4 Lincoln's Legacy with Great Thinkers and Leaders5 OverviewChapter 6 Chapter 2. Tolstoy on LincolnChapter 7 Chapter 3. Mill and Lincoln on LibertyChapter 8 Chapter 4. Theodore Roosevelt and the Heirs of LincolnChapter 9 Chapter 5. Woodrow Wilson and Lincoln's Bridge to the WorldChapter 10 Chapter 6. Lincoln's Impact on Martin Luther King, Jr.Chapter 11 Chapter 7. Lincoln and the Idea of a Democratic PeacePart 12 Lincoln's Legacy and American Memory13 OverviewChapter 14 Chapter 8. African-American Memory and the Great EmancipatorChapter 15 Chapter 9. Lincoln, the Roosevelts, and Herbert Croly's AmericaChapter 16 Chapter 10. Lincoln's Relationship with Gentility in AmericaChapter 17 Chapter 11. Lincoln's Use of Religion and MoralityChapter 18 Chapter 12. Shaping American Foreign Policy: Comparing Lincoln/Seward and Nixon/KissingerChapter 19 Chapter 13. Lincoln as Father: Dealing with Tragedy in the White House20 EpilogueChapter 21 Chapter 14. Reflections on Lincoln's Enduring Legacy