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Abraham Lincoln's Statesmanship
Author_Ted J. Richards
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Lincoln and Shakespeare
Lincoln's Education
Lincoln's Political Thought
Literature and Politics
Self-Education
Shakespeare's Political Thought
Shakespeare's Politics
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- ISBN 9781666977158
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Few figures have received more popular and scholarly attention than Abraham Lincoln – and yet few works have focused on the impact of his self-education. Tradition holds that this education consisted primarily in reading “Shakespeare and the Bible.” Taking this characterization seriously, Lincoln’s Shakesperean Education focuses on the great American statesman’s engagement with the great English playwright, while still giving Scripture its due along the way. Through close and careful readings of the president’s favorite plays, Ted Richards demonstrates how Shakespeare influenced Lincoln’s political thought, rhetoric, and statesmanship, and examines the impact this poetry had on his personal life. Students of Lincoln and Shakespeare will benefit from the new and sometimes surprising insights that Richards presents, while ambitious and aspiring autodidacts will find in the great emancipator a truly liberal course of study and a worthy model to emulate.
Ted J. Richards is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Declaration of Independence Center at the University of Mississippi, where he teaches in the Freedom Studies Minor. Additionally, he is the director of the Telos Academy (a project of the Claremont Institute) and a private homeschool tutor in literature and history. He received his PhD in Political Science from Claremont Graduate University. He lives in Oxford, MS with his wife and two children.
