{"product_id":"and-there-was-light-abraham-lincoln-and-the-american-struggle","title":"And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAnd There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJon Meacham\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780553393989\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRandom House Trade Paperbacks\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.\"--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize - Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award - One of the Best Books of the Year: \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle | Jon Meacham | Paperback | 9780553393989 | New | Biography 1557150","offer_id":50579133825282,"sku":"1557150","price":49.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/7187N7Hx5mL.jpg?v=1790958911","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/and-there-was-light-abraham-lincoln-and-the-american-struggle","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}