And there was light: Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
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“Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize • Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.
At once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents—a remote icon—or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln—an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment, essential to the story of justice in America, began as he grew up in an antislavery Baptist community; who insisted that slavery was a moral evil; and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him to see the right.
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. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans, Lincoln’s story illustrates the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Religion.
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery.
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1845-1861.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
United States -- Politics and government.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Race relations.
Notes
Meacham, J. (2022). And there was light: Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle. First edition. New York, Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Meacham, Jon. 2022. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. New York, Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Meacham, Jon, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. New York, Random House, 2022.
MLA Citation (style guide)Meacham, Jon. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. First edition. New York, Random House, 2022.
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505 | 0 | |a Prologue : A big, inconsistent, brave man -- Clothed in bone & nerve, beginnings to 1846. My mind and memory ; Abe was hungry for books ; I am humble Abraham Lincoln ; Founded on injustice and bad policy ; She had the fire, will, and ambition -- The banner he bears, 1846-1859. From the very depths of society ; We have got to deal with this slavery question ; The conscience of the nation must be roused ; To understand the moral universe ; If all earthly powers were given me ; The hateful embrace of slavery ; By white men for the benefit of white men -- Right makes might, 1859-1861. Let us dare to do our duty ; God help me, God help me ; He has a will of his own ; To take the Capital by violence -- My whole soul is in it, 1861-1863. The momentous issue of civil war ; "A white man's war" ; My boy is gone - he is actually gone ; I think the time has come now ; The President has done nobly -- A new birth of freedom, 1863-1864. That all men could be free ; Who shall be the next president? ; The strife of the election -- His illimitable work, 1864 to the end. This great moral victory ; The Almighty has his own purposes ; Old Abe will come out all right ; Lincoln was slain, America was meant ; I see now the wisdom of his course. | |
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