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Lincoln is, both culturally and in terms of his economic thinking, firmly and immovably located in the center of what we can call liberal democratic thought in the 19th century. He is very much market oriented, with tremendous confidence in the power of a capitalist society to transform for the better, and he believes in opening the possibilities of that society to as many as possible. To him, that’s what’s coterminous with liberty.

— Allen C. Guelzo

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Allen C. Guelzo

About Allen C. Guelzo

Allen Carl Guelzo (born 1953) is an American historian.