Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, January 1st, 2001
On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History. By John Patrick Diggins. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi, 330. $27.95.)
John Patrick Diggins is one of the most prolific scholars of United States intellectual history of his generation. He is also one of the more contentious. Writing often in the shadow (or reflected glory) of Louis Hartz's classic The Liberal Tradition in America (1955), Diggins has in numerous books defended a "consensus" interpretation of the American past organized around a unique combination of liberalism derived from John Lock...
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