Evaluate how Guelzo shows how Lincoln plunged deeply into the mainstream of nineteenth-century liberal democratic thought.

Evaluate how Guelzo shows how Lincoln plunged deeply into the mainstream of nineteenth-century liberal democratic thought. Discuss Guelzo approach to a wide-ranging exploration of problems that confronted Lincoln and liberal democracy–equality, opportunity, the rule of law, slavery, freedom, peace, and his legacy. Finally comment on how the book sets these problems and Lincoln’s responses against the larger world of American and trans-Atlantic liberal democracy in the 19th century. • Conclude by describing something that surprised you about this text. Did it make you look at this topic in a new way, and if so, why? Is there something you found unconvincing about the argument?