{"product_id":"lincolns-emancipation-proclamation-9780743299657","title":"Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation","description":"One of the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars offers an authoritative consideration of the document that represents the most far-reaching accomplishment of our greatest president. No single official paper in American history changed the lives of as many Americans as Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. But no American document has been held up to greater suspicion. Its bland and lawyerlike language is unfavorably compared to the soaring eloquence of the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural; its effectiveness in freeing the slaves has been dismissed as a legal illusion. And for some African-Americans the Proclamation raises doubts about Lincoln himself. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation dispels the myths and mistakes surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation and skillfully reconstructs how America's greatest president wrote the greatest American proclamation of freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuelzo, Allen C.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAllen C. Guelzo\u003c\/b\u003e is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at \u003cbr\u003eGettysburg College, where he also directs the Civil War Era Studies Program and \u003cbr\u003eThe Gettysburg Semester. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAbraham Lincoln: Redeemer \u003cbr\u003ePresident\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and Lincoln's \u003ci\u003eEmancipation Proclamation: The End of \u003cbr\u003eSlavery in America\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), both of which won the Lincoln Prize. He has \u003cbr\u003ewritten essays and reviews for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street \u003cbr\u003eJournal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other \u003cbr\u003epublications.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50566218842386,"sku":"9780743299657","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e3129a4b-ccab-45cf-98f5-eb850e1e5a3f.jpg?v=1731892438","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lincolns-emancipation-proclamation-9780743299657","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}