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Scholars need to find new ways to bring the complexities of the text and its environment more directly into conversation with the complexities of human communities here and now

he is disturbed one night by the sound of men shouting

containing within itself the seeds of self-destruction

The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties Photography step by stepIf Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln's record on the Constitution and individual rights has fueled a century of debate, from charges that Democrats were singled out for harassment to Gore Vidal's depiction of Lincoln as an "absolute dictator." Now, in the Pulitzer Prize winning The Fate of Liberty, one of America's leading authorities on Lincoln