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Author : Tayden Bundy
Release : 2018-12
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Book Rating : 322/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Beyond Lincoln by : Tayden Bundy
Download or read book Beyond Lincoln written by Tayden Bundy. This book was released on 2018-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lincoln A. Phillips
Release : 2014-03-28
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Synopsis Rising Above and Beyond the Crossbar by : Lincoln A. Phillips
Download or read book Rising Above and Beyond the Crossbar written by Lincoln A. Phillips. This book was released on 2014-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil Rights era is the backdrop to this story of a black college soccer team who played their hearts out to overcome racial injustice in 1970s USA. Stocked with some of the best Caribbean and African players of the era, the Howard University Bison went on to win two national championships under the martial discipline of Coach Lincoln Tiger Phillips. The Tiger made history by becoming the first college coach to win an NCAA championship for a Historically Black University, when the Bison stormed to the 1971 and 1974 titles. He is a former professional goalkeeper who did his utmost to repel the sorcery of Brazilian maestro Pel in the early days of professional soccer in the United States, and helped take Trinidad & Tobago to bronze at the 1967 Pan Am Games. This biography crackles with anecdotes of Coach Phillipss life. From his roller skating, Carnival costume-wearing boyhood in Trinidad to his days as the nickname-bestowing soccer coach who expects his players to excel, academically and athletically, Above And Beyond will transport the reader from the tears of tough losses to the euphoria of two national titles. Read the story of an athlete and soldier so exhausted from long days of training for competition that he cant polish his army boots when he returns to base, and learn about the man who finds the ideal slogan to rally the embattled Howard team to a second national title after theyre stripped of the first.
Author : John Burt
Release : 2013-01-07
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 534/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism by : John Burt
Download or read book Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism written by John Burt. This book was released on 2013-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice In 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than slavery in those debates. In Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism, John Burt contends that the very legitimacy of democratic governance was on the line. In a United States stubbornly divided over ethical issues, the overarching question posed by the Lincoln-Douglas debates has not lost its urgency: Can a liberal political system be used to mediate moral disputes? And if it cannot, is violence inevitable? “John Burt has written a work that every serious student of Lincoln will have to read...Burt refracts Lincoln through the philosophy of Kant, Rawls and contemporary liberal political theory. His is very much a Lincoln for our time.” —Steven B. Smith, New York Times Book Review “I'm making space on my overstuffed shelves for Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism. This is a book I expect to be picking up and thumbing through for years to come.” —Jim Cullen, History News Network “Burt treats the [Lincoln-Douglas] debates as being far more significant than an election contest between two candidates. The debates represent profound statements of political philosophy and speak to the continuing challenges the U.S. faces in resolving divisive moral conflicts.” —E. C. Sands, Choice
Author : Terence Ball
Release : 2012-12-13
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 679/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lincoln by : Terence Ball
Download or read book Lincoln written by Terence Ball. This book was released on 2012-12-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln occupies a unique place in the American pantheon. Symbol, sage, myth and martyr, he is an American icon – Honest Abe and The Great Emancipator, a Janus-faced demigod sculpted in marble. But this is the post-assassination Lincoln. During his lifetime Lincoln elicited very different reactions. The writings and speeches presented in this scholarly edition illuminate Lincoln as a political thinker in the context of his own time and political situation. Opening with a concise yet rich introduction, the texts that follow are complete and carefully edited, with extensive annotation and footnotes to provide a clearer insight into Lincoln the man, the politician and political thinker. His views on race and slavery, on secession and civil war and on the contradiction (as his saw it) between the Declaration of Independence ('all men are created equal') and the original Constitution (which condones slavery) are laid out in Lincoln's own well-crafted words.
Author : Karl Weber
Release : 2012-10-30
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 639/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lincoln by : Karl Weber
Download or read book Lincoln written by Karl Weber. This book was released on 2012-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion book to the major motion picture has leading historians answering the question: OWhat Would Lincoln Do?O
