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Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power by Kevin Peraino Foreign policy is one area of Abraham Lincoln’s career that has not received as much attention as it deserves. The small number of previous books on the subject tend to tackle narrow aspects, for…

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Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power by Kevin Peraino Foreign policy is one area of Abraham Lincoln’s career that has not received as much attention as it deserves. The small number of previous books on the subject tend to tackle narrow aspects, for example, the Trent Affair and conflicts with the British, or Maximilian’s presence in Mexico. Kevin Peraino tries to expand the subject to cover the broader foreign policy issues and philosophy of Lincoln’s Washington. https://abrahamlincolnbibliography.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/lincoln-in-the-world-the-making-of-a-statesman-and-the-dawn-of-american-power-by-kevin-peraino/