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""Perhaps the book’s most significant contribution is its expression of the centrality of religion to nineteenth-century Americans and the ways religious ideologies and rhetoric played a role in political discourse. For most students, this will be a new idea; and the knowledge that Abraham Lincoln arguably understood that connection better than most politicians and political observers of his era will open up a new dimension of Lincoln’s famous words with which most students are already acquainted. As Szasz explains so succinctly, 'during the Civil War era, politics, religion, and sacred language overlapped on a variety of fronts'” —Stacy Pratt McDermott, Lincoln in Brief: A Review Essay

Perhaps the book's most significant contribution is its expression of the centrality of religion to nineteenth-century Americans and the ways religious ideologies and rhetoric played a role in political discourse. For most students, this will be a new idea; and the knowledge that Abraham Lincoln arguably understood that connection better than most politicians and political observers of his era will open up a new dimension of Lincoln's famous words with which most students are already acquainted. As Szasz explains so succinctly, ""during the Civil War era, politics, religion, and sacred language overlapped on a variety of fronts"" (49).--Stacy Pratt McDermott, Lincoln in Brief: A Review Essay --Stacy Pratt Mcdermott ""The Annals of Iowa/State Historical Society of Iowa"" (5/31/2017 12:00:00 AM)

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