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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 ...

His moral clarity, his extraordinary gifts with language, his decisive role in preserving the Union and what some consider his ultimate martyrdom combine to make of Lincoln a myth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...