Harry Jaffa On His Life With Lincoln

Harry V. Jaffa, Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute, speaks with Peter Robinson on "Uncommon Knowledge," a National Review Online broadcast. Professor Jaffa talks about the genesis of his classic analysis of the Civil War, Crisis of the House Divided (1959; the link takes you to Willmoore Kendall's NR book review), and his lifetime of Lincoln scholarship.

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates with Harry Jaffa : Chapter 1 of 5

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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates with Harry Jaffa : Chapter 3 of 5

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Powerline (Dec. 29, 2008) shares this on Crisis of the House Divided: "The prominent historian Allen Guelzo observed in the bibliographic essay that concludes his highly regarded biography of Lincoln that Crisis is "incontestably the greatest Lincoln book of the [twentieth] century." Bill Kristol discreetly recommends the book to the attention of President-elect Obama in his interesting Times column."

Professor Jaffa's latest book, his sequel to Crisis, is A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004). Read the review by the Civil War scholar, Allen Guelzo.

Read what my colleague, David Corbin, has to say about this series of interviews at republican 101.