The Fate of Liberty

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| name = The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties

| image = Fate of Liberty book cover.jpg

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| caption = 1991 Book jacket

| author = Mark E. Neely, Jr.

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| country = United States

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| genre = history

| publisher = Oxford University Press

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| pub_date = 1991

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| pages = 304

| awards = Pulitzer Prize for History

| isbn = 9780195064964

| isbn_note = 978-0195080322

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}}{{Short description|1991 book by Mark E. Neely, Jr.}}

The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties is a 1991 book by American historian Mark E. Neely, Jr., published by Oxford University Press. The book examines President Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus and other rights during the American Civil War.

{{cite journal | jstor=20092760 | last1=Finkelman | first1=Paul | last2=Neely | first2=Mark E. | title=Essay Review: Abraham Lincoln and American Civil Liberties | journal=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography | date=11 March 1992 | volume=116 | issue=4 | pages=513–517 }}{{cite journal | jstor=2165876 | last1=Bernstein | first1=Iver | last2=Neely | first2=Mark E. | title=Reviewed work: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, Mark E. Neely, Jr | journal=The American Historical Review | date=11 March 1992 | volume=97 | issue=2 | pages=619–620 | doi=10.2307/2165876 }}{{cite journal | jstor=27791514 | last1=Baxter | first1=Maurice | last2=Neely | first2=Mark E. | title=Reviewed work: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, Mark E. Neely Jr | journal=Indiana Magazine of History | date=11 March 1991 | volume=87 | issue=4 | pages=357–358 }}{{cite journal | jstor=27550922 | last1=Berwanger | first1=Eugene H. | last2=Neeley | first2=Mark E. | last3=Neely | first3=Mark E. | title=Reviewed work: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, Mark E. Neeley Jr., Mark E. Neely Jr | journal=Presidential Studies Quarterly | date=11 March 1992 | volume=22 | issue=1 | pages=177–178 }}{{cite journal | jstor=2078875 | last1=Cook | first1=Adrian | last2=Neely | first2=Mark E. | title=Reviewed work: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties., Mark E. Neely, Jr | journal=The Journal of American History | date=11 March 1991 | volume=78 | issue=3 | pages=1091–1092 | doi=10.2307/2078875 }} The book was awarded the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for History.{{cite news |author=Streitfeld |first=David |date=8 April 1992 |title=Viet Vet Awarded Pulitzer for Memoir; Lewis Puller, Novelist Jane Smiley Honored |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/04/08/viet-vet-awarded-pulitzer-for-memoir/5c7c2928-ed16-4b8f-8cf7-47237be1d3b1/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309134602/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-999736.html |archive-date=March 9, 2016 |accessdate=19 April 2025 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}