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2/15/10: Father Abraham

photo: Dave Bushe /Creative Commons via flickr
photo: Dave Bushe /Creative Commons via flickr

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, Utah – Abraham Lincoln is often portrayed as a moderate whose main mission was to keep the country united. Biographer Richard Striner sees him not as a politician who only pragmatically freed the slaves though, but rather as a visionary political ethicist who from the beginning of his career strove for justice and human equality. Doug talks to Striner about his interpretations of Lincoln's speeches and writings. (Rebroadcast)

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