Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America.
By Allen C. Guelzo. Simon & Schuster, 352 pp., $26.00.
ALLEN GUELZO'S book leads us into contested territory. For more than a generation after the Civil War, Francis B. Carpenter's painting "The Emancipation Proclamation," portraying Lincoln as the great emancipator, occupied an honored place in many American--including African American--homes. The terrain began to shift during the 1960s civil rights era, as ...