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TITLE: Lincoln Symposium: William Lee Miller
SPEAKER: William Lee Miller
EVENT DATE: 03/16/2002
RUNNING TIME: 62 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
William Lee Miller speaks at the Abraham Lincoln Institute Fifth Annual Symposium (2002) on "'I Felt It My Duty to Refuse': A Presidential Pardon Case." He is introduced by Douglas Wilson.
Speaker Biography: William Lee Miller, now Scholar in Ethics and Institutions at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, is the author of Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography, published February 12, 2002, by Alfred A. Knopf. He is the author of a number of other books, including Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the American Congress, which won the D.B. Haldeman Award for the best book on Congress in 1996. Mr. Miller retired from the faculty of U.Va. in 1999 as Commonwealth Professor, and the Thomas C. Sorensen Professor, of Political and Social Thought. He had taught also at Yale, Smith College, and Indiana University, where he was founding director of The Poynter Center on American Institutions. He has written numerous articles and essays on public affairs; his articles from his days as a writer and editor at The Reporter magazine were collected in Piety Along the Potomac (1964). His memories of serving on the New Haven Board of Aldermen were published as The Fifteenth Ward and the Great Society (1966). He has made several forays into political campaigns, served on the Fund for the Republic's Commission on Religion and a Free Society, and repeatedly been a moderator of humanities seminars at the Aspen Institutute. He received his Ph.D. in social ethics in 1958 from Yale.