In the canon
The American Political Tradition
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1948
- Pages
- Pages 380
Take Abraham Lincoln down off the schoolroom wall, turn him slowly in the light, and the seams show: a log-cabin legend patiently built by the man himself, around an ambition his law partner called a little engine that knew no rest. Richard Hofstadter does that twelve times over.
It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.
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