The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill or Abraham Lincoln

The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, the Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism

Author: John Stuart Mill

The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected for the first time in this volume are Mill’s three seminal and most widely read works: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism. A brilliant defense of individual rights versus the power of the state, On Liberty is essential reading for anyone interested in political thought and theory. As Bertrand Russell reflected, “On Liberty remains a classic . . . the present world would be better than it is, if [Mill’s] principles were more respected.”

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes newly commissioned endnotes and commentary by Dale E. Miller, and an index.

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Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President

Author: Allen C Guelzo

More has been written about Abraham Lincoln than about any other American. Yet very little of this literature sees Lincoln as he was in his times -- as a man of ideas, as a man of deep intellectual curiosity about the raging political and economic debates in nineteenth-century America, and as a textbook Victorian "doubter" who could not believe as an orthodox Christian yet could not be easy in his unbelief. This truly fresh look at the nation's sixteenth president offers the first "intellectual biography" of a man whose grasp of the powerful currents of religion, philosophy, and political economy shaped not only the outcome of a great civil war but also the outlines of American national development for the following generation.

Wall Street Journal

"The number of books about Abraham Lincoln is almost beyond counting.... Unique among this outpouring is Allen C. Guelzo's "Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President," an intellectual biography of a president who was, at bottom, a man of ideas.... Interestingly, for Lincoln the mixing of moralism and politics came rather late....With the approach of the Civil War, he began to make use of religious imagery in his public statements, while the war itself seemed to provoke in him something close to a religious quest to discover its meaning. Dissecting this quest forms the core of "Redeemer President," and the job Mr. Guelzo does of it is masterly.... It is a testament to the strength of "Redeemer President" that the matters it addresses resist easy summary. The value of the book itself, however, is easy enough to state: Out of the countless volumes written about our 16th president, it ranks quite simply among the best."

Choice

"Guelzo's book, the first true intellectual biography of the man the author calls America's "redeemer president," ranks among the most significant half-dozen studies of Lincoln during a remarkable decade of scholarship.... Especially perceptive is Guelzo's portrayal of Lincoln's odyssey from youthful scoffer to perhaps most religious of US presidents, ever rejecting the ritual and denominational dogma of public worship but increasingly taken with a personal form of Calvinist spirituality culminating in his immortal Second Inaugural Address, arguably the most profound exploration of religious values ever penned by an American author.... Recommended for literate readers at all levels."

Publishers Weekly

Is it possible that amid the voluminous literature on Abraham Lincoln, there is room for yet another study? Allen Guelzo's Abraham Lincoln eloquently proves that there is, since religion has been sorely neglected by historians of Lincoln and the Civil War.

The Weekly Standard

One of the subtlest and deepest studies of Lincoln's faith and thought in many years.... Seldom has the complex connection between Lincoln's predispositions and Lincoln's achievements been more insightfully studied than in Allen Guelzo's superb book.

Wall Street Journal - Bret Louis Stephens

Out of the countless volumes written about our 16th president, Allen C. Guelzo's Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, it ranks quite simply among the best.

WQ Magazine - Michael Novak

This rich and subtle of Lincoln's intellectual life well deserves to have received the prestigious Lincoln Prize; it is superb.