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This book, written by Professor Eric Foner, the most outstanding contemporary American historian, focuses on the evolution of Lincoln's thoughts and policies on slavery. It stands out among the numerous works on Lincoln and has won many academic awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and the Lincoln Prize. It has become "the most detailed and authoritative book to date discussing the evolution of Lincoln's abolition thoughts and policies." Foner puts Lincoln's thoughts and actions into the "historical situation" at that time, and according to the "way history unfolds", with as always elegant and fascinating writing, he discusses the origin and evolution of Lincoln's anti-slavery thoughts, the causes of the American Civil War, Lincoln's process of abolition, Lincoln and abolitionism It provides an in-depth and refreshing analysis of the relationship between liberals and radical Republicans, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of Lincoln's anti-slavery thoughts. It not only avoids the ideological bias existing in previous studies on Lincoln, but also clears up the fog of writing a biography of a saint, and does not fall into the habit of malicious slander of a great man.