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Lincoln and Douglass : an American friendship
In an account of the friendship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, readers get a glimpse into the shared bond between two great American leaders during a turbulent time in history.
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John stuart blackie
John Stuart Blackie was one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, as well as one of the most striking and flamboyant. As an intellectual he translated Goethe's Faust and brought first-hand knowledge of German philosophy to Scotland as a means of keeping the Enlightenment tradition alive. As first Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen from 1839 to 1852 and then as Professor of Greek at Edinburgh until 1882, he played a, perhaps the, central role in modernising the Scottish university curriculum, removing the dead hand of theological orthodoxy, raising standards (and the entry age), introducing tutorial teaching and establishing new chairs (including the Edinburgh chair of Celtic). His role in the reform of secondary school teaching was equally central.
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Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass : the story behind an American friendship
This book describes events in the relationship between abolotionist and former slave Frederick Douglass, and President Abraham Lincoln.
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Forged in crisis : the power of courageous leadership in turbulent times
Presents a portrait of five extraordinary figures--Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson--to illuminate how great leaders are made in times of adversity and the diverse skills they summon in order to prevail.
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John Stuart Blackie: Scottish Scholar and Patriot
John Stuart Blackie's eccentricity provides a challenge and an opportunity for the biogra-pher: Blackie's friend, the Aberdeenshire clergyman William Anderson, was in no doubt that he would one day merit a biography (77), and Stuart Wallace has written a clear and scholarly account, based on an extraordinarily diligent reading of the Blackie collection in the National Library of Scotland and a scrupulous search for his letters in other archives.
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John Stuart Blackie: Scottish Scholar and Patriot
O'Dochartaigh reviews John Stuart Blackie: Scottish Scholar and Patriot by Stuart Wallace.
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