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AND THERE WAS LIGHT
Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America.
President Abraham Lincoln, in the popular minds of many, is considered the greatest American President. A familiar and elusive leader who governed a divided country, there is much to learn in a twenty-first century period of polarization and political crises. He was President when implacable secessionists clashed with visions bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered.
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham turns his attention to chronicling the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America.
This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 and as a boy, steeped in the sermons of emancipation by Baptists preachers who, as he put it, sought to do right as God gave him light to see the right, to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on Good Friday 1865. It captures his rise, his self-education through reading, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans of the nineteenth century, Lincoln's story illuminates the ways and means of politics, the marshaling of power in a belligerent democracy, the durability of white supremacy in America, and the capacity of conscience to shape the maelstrom of events.
AND THERE WAS LIGHT is an utterly fascinating new portrait that gives us a very human Lincoln - an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment was essential to the story of justice in America.
Jon Meacham is the co-chair of the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, professor of Political Science, and Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of the #1 bestsellers HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, THE SOUL OF AMERICA: The Battle for Our Better Angels, DESTINY AND POWER: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, and THOMAS JEFFERSON: The Art of Power, AMERICAN LION: Andrew Jackson in the White House, AMERICAN GOSPEL, and FRANKLIN AND WINSTON. Meacham is a former editor of Newsweek, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Vanity Fair, among many other publications.
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham turns his attention to chronicling the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America.
This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 and as a boy, steeped in the sermons of emancipation by Baptists preachers who, as he put it, sought to do right as God gave him light to see the right, to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on Good Friday 1865. It captures his rise, his self-education through reading, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans of the nineteenth century, Lincoln's story illuminates the ways and means of politics, the marshaling of power in a belligerent democracy, the durability of white supremacy in America, and the capacity of conscience to shape the maelstrom of events.
AND THERE WAS LIGHT is an utterly fascinating new portrait that gives us a very human Lincoln - an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment was essential to the story of justice in America.
Jon Meacham is the co-chair of the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, professor of Political Science, and Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of the #1 bestsellers HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, THE SOUL OF AMERICA: The Battle for Our Better Angels, DESTINY AND POWER: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, and THOMAS JEFFERSON: The Art of Power, AMERICAN LION: Andrew Jackson in the White House, AMERICAN GOSPEL, and FRANKLIN AND WINSTON. Meacham is a former editor of Newsweek, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Vanity Fair, among many other publications.
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Published 2022-10-25 by Random House |