It takes the average reader 13 hours and 58 minutes to read Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism by John Burt
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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice In 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than slavery in those debates. In Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism, John Burt contends that the very legitimacy of democratic governance was on the line. In a United States stubbornly divided over ethical issues, the overarching question posed by the Lincoln-Douglas debates has not lost its urgency: Can a liberal political system be used to mediate moral disputes? And if it cannot, is violence inevitable?...
Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism by John Burt is 832 pages long, and a total of 209,664 words.
This makes it 281% the length of the average book. It also has 256% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 19 hours and 5 minutes to read Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism aloud.
Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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