The fate of liberty : Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties

Why read it

• You will question the belief that the Democrats opposed military arrests on principle, since their protests were brief and opportunistic
• You will learn to check a picture of a ruthless state against its own paperwork, which here shows a passive, often baffled department
• You will weigh whether wartime arrests were partisan, when some orders aimed at draft resistance and were revoked once their purpose ended

Who it is for

• A Lincoln reader who wants the arrest record, not the myth
• A law student weighing civil liberties against wartime security
• A history teacher preparing a class on the Civil War home front

Contents

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