And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle (Random House Large Print)

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To a correspondent who asked for information on his background once he became a national figure, Lincoln said, “There is not much of it, for the reason, I suppose, that there is not much of me.

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographerJon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how-and why-he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. The beauty and sublimity of the language here used has often been noticed: God makes no preparation, He employs no means, needs no secondary agency.

And for decades, scholars and pundits have been pulling out quotes of his to support their own political arguments. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the water, and every sort of bird—each producing offspring of the same kind. Meacham sets Lincoln’s development against the growing crisis of the slave states’ determination to maintain and expand the scope of slavery, a fight culminating in Lincoln’s election and the Civil War.

This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination in 1865- his rise, his self-education, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. Absolute consistency is not a luxury available to the office-seeking and office-holding leaders of a democracy. A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. about 1,000 yards from the Confederate headquarters on Missionary Ridge, site of a Union victory on Nov.VERDICT A scholarly book on the life, triumphs, and heartbreaks of Abraham Lincoln's life, but general readers may enjoy it too. Meacham encourages these critics to understand Lincoln rather than cancel him, by emphasizing his morality, pointing out just how much he was able to accomplish, and how much better off we are today because of it. Raymond shared the letter with Lincoln, who replied that he was “not pledged to the ultimate extinction of slavery; does not hold the black man to be the equal of the white, unqualifiedly as Mr. His mother, Nancy, had frequently been the subject of rumors, thanks to her family’s reputation for promiscuity. Instead of scrolling through your social media news feed, this is a much better way to spend your spare time in my opinion.