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

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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.

After getting these necessary caveats out of the way, though, Meacham doesn’t actually spend much time examining Lincoln’s imperfections. He is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope; The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels; The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last . This was the world in which Lincoln yearned to make his mark –⁠ to transcend the limitations of his upbringing and prove himself legitimate. The Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, he is the author of the New York Times bestsellers His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, American Gospel, and Franklin and Winston.And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle is biographical book about Abraham Lincoln. On Monday, March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln emerged from the Presidential carriage with the text of his inaugural address in his hands as he gazed out upon a large audience. As such, the topic was ever-present during Lincoln’s four terms in the Illinois state legislature –⁠ a position he won two years after his initial loss.

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. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle was such an engaging book by one of my favorite historians, Jon Meacham. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. I suppose linking historical narratives to modern times is de rigueur for a work of popular history, so as to appeal to a mass readership who might otherwise be turned off by stories about a bunch of old dead guys from dusty old history books.the party endorsed the “speedy construction” of the transcontinental railroad and a “liberal and just” policy of immigration given that “foreign immigration…has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to the nation. Lincoln would come to see democracy as a work in progress, a process in which reason took its chances against prejudice and passion.

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