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Well, we want to look today as what, if anything, he meant by that, how sincere he was or how well he understood his own commitment to and concept of friendship. And i have a group of very accomplished friends to explore that topic with me. Chuck strosier, who has spoken at the Lincoln Forum who brings his experience as a psychoanalyst, psychobiographer, a onetime resident of springfield. By which i mean he knows about lincolns springfield. Not that one must be a psychoanalyst to live in springfield, although we dont know. And of course as an authority which is the subject of his latest book on the complex relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his only really close friend, joshua speed. Well hear more about that in the panel. Edna green medford, a member of the forum and has written and lectured here on the subject of lincoln, emancipation, race, equality and africanameric ....
Lincoln quote. Because on todays topic as with most subjects, Abraham Lincoln expressed himself better than almost anyone. And as he said in 1849, the better part of ones life consists of his friendships. Well, we want to look today as what, if anything, he meant by that, how sincere he was or how well he understood his own commitment to and concept of friendship. And i have a group of very accomplished friends to explore that topic with me. Chuck strosier, who has spoken at the Lincoln Forum who brings his experience as a psychoanalyst, psychobiographer, a onetime resident of springfield. By which i mean he knows about springfield. And of course as an authority which is the subject of his latest book on the complex relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his only really close friend joshua speed. Well hear more about ....
University for four years. Author or editor of 11 books, several of which nominated for National Book awards, his recent work lincoln and the immigrant is a volume in the series con size Lincoln Library series published by Southern IllinoisUniversity Press and was released in september. Of the 16,500 and counting volumes published on Abraham Lincoln, this is the first full length study of its kind. Dr. Silverman received his undergraduate degree at the university of virginia and his graduate degrees at Colorado State and the university of kentucky. He has received many distinguished teaching awards. Is currently working on a companion volume detaili ....
Supervision of democracy because majority rule is the essence of the american project. There are, however, two things wrong with this formulation. First, it is utterly unrealistic and simple minded to think that there is a majority support for or majority interest in or even majority awareness of even a tiny fraction of what modern governments do in dishing out advantages to economic factions. Does anyone really think that when the nashville City Government dispenses favors for the taxi and limo cartels, it is acting on a will of the majority of the citys residents . Can anyone actually believe that a majority of louisianans give a tinkers dam about who sells caskets or arranges flowers . We know because he said so clearly and often that lincoln took his political bearings from the declaration of independence. Which brings me back again to 1854 to the kansas nebraska act and to lincolns noble recoil from the idea of popular sover ....