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William Lee Miller has taught at Yale University, Smith College, Indiana University, and the University of Virginia, where he is currently Miller Center of Public Affairs Scholar in Ethics and Institutions. He has been an editor and writer on a political magazine, a speechwriter, and a three-term alderman. He is the author of numerous books. Arguing About Slavery won the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress.
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Arguing about Slavery
John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $19.00
In the 1830s slavery was so deeply entrenched that it could not even be discussed in Congress, which had enacted a "gag rule" to ensure that anti-slavery petitions would be summarily rejected. This stirring book chronicles the parliamentary battle to bring "the peculiar institution" into the national debate, a battle that... Read more >
John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1998
Price: $19.00
In the 1830s slavery was so deeply entrenched that it could not even be discussed in Congress, which had enacted a "gag rule" to ensure that anti-slavery petitions would be summarily rejected. This stirring book chronicles the parliamentary battle to bring "the peculiar institution" into the national debate, a battle that... Read more >
Lincoln's Virtues
An Ethical Biography
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $15.95
William Lee Miller’s ethical biography is a fresh, engaging telling of the story of Lincoln’s rise to power. Through careful scrutiny of Lincoln’s actions, speeches, and writings, and of accounts from those who knew him, Miller gives us insight into the moral development of a great politician—one who made the choice... Read more >
An Ethical Biography
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $15.95
William Lee Miller’s ethical biography is a fresh, engaging telling of the story of Lincoln’s rise to power. Through careful scrutiny of Lincoln’s actions, speeches, and writings, and of accounts from those who knew him, Miller gives us insight into the moral development of a great politician—one who made the choice... Read more >
President Lincoln
The Duty of a Statesman
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $16.95
The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world—and back in the nineteenth century a great man held that office. William Lee Miller’s new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.
Wars waged by American presidents have come to... Read more >
The Duty of a Statesman
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $16.95
The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world—and back in the nineteenth century a great man held that office. William Lee Miller’s new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.
Wars waged by American presidents have come to... Read more >
President Lincoln
The Duty of a Statesman
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $30.00
The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world—and back in the nineteenth century a great man held that office. William Lee Miller’s new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.
Wars waged by American presidents have come to... Read more >
The Duty of a Statesman
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $30.00
The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world—and back in the nineteenth century a great man held that office. William Lee Miller’s new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.
Wars waged by American presidents have come to... Read more >
President Lincoln
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: eBook, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $16.95
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Written by William Lee Miller
Format: eBook, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $16.95
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