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Article: A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR.(Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- March 1, 2001
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A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR. By HARRY V. JAFFA. Rowman & Littlefield. 549 pp. $35.
IN THE PREFACE TO Crisis of the House Divided, his 1959 work on the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, Harry Jaffa, who had just turned forty, announced that the book was to be "the first part of a two-part study of Lincoln's political philosophy." He already had in mind the title of the new, unwritten work: A New Birth of Freedom.
In 2000, forty-one years later, A New Birth of Freedom finally appeared, and the author seems more ambitious than ever. He promises still a third volume, "on the triumph and tragedy of the war years." ...