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Harvard history professor Gienapp (The Origins of the Republican Party) devotes a mere 70 pages of his brief new biography to Abraham Lincoln's prepresidential life; in a volume that "synthesizes ...

A politician is up for reelection, holding firm to their moral convictions — however politically unpopular — in the pursuit of preserving an endangered democracy. Sound familiar? A new biography by ...

Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham has set a high bar for himself in penning yet another biography of one of the most written-about personalities in human history. Most American readers believe they ...

Tonight, candidates in the mid-term elections are approaching the end of the trail and voters the end of their ropes. It's been as long, as negative and as nasty a campaign as anyone can remember.

AND THERE WAS LIGHT: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE by Jon Meacham, Random House, 676 pages, $40 Every generation gets its own Abraham Lincoln biography. But if time seems to move faster ...

“Abe Lincoln in Illinois” is a 1938 play that is essentially a pre-presidency biography of Abraham Lincoln. It is, amazingly, enlightening to contemporary audiences. When the play first appeared in ...

2021-02-18T08:01:09-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/2a2/20210218080212001_hd.jpgHistorian David S. Reynolds discusses his biography of Abraham Lincoln and how he ...

"AND THERE WAS LIGHT: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE" by Jon Meacham (Random House, 676 pages, $40). Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham has set a high bar for himself in penning yet another ...