Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375701733)

William Lee Miller's ethical biography is a fresh, engaging telling of the story of Lincoln's rise to power. Through careful scrutiny of Lincoln's actions, speeches, and writings, and of accounts from those who knew him, Miller gives us insight into the moral development of a great politician -- one who made the choice to go into politics, and ultimately realized that vocation's fullest moral possibilities.

As Lincoln's Virtues makes refreshingly clear, Lincoln was not born with his face on Mount Rushmore; he was an actual human being making choices -- moral choices -- in a real world. In an account animated by wit and humor, Miller follows this unschooled frontier politician's rise, showing that the higher he went and the greater his power, the worthier his conduct would become. He would become that rare bird, a great man who was also a good man. Uniquely revealing of its subject's heart and mind, it represents a major contribution to our understanding and of Lincoln, and to the perennial American discussion of the relationship between politics and morality.

Author: William Lee Miller
ISBN-10: 0375701737
ISBN-13: 9780375701733
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2003
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.24w x 0.93d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/23/2003 pg. 28