In his book, Jon Meacham aims to recraft a usable mythology of Abraham Lincoln for leaders in the 21st century, when dissension and talk of civil war have returned. (Salwan Georges/The Washington ...

Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks with NPR about his new biography, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. It examines Lincoln's actions as well as motivations.

1. The author, a Clinton White House adviser, began a multivolume Lincoln biography with this atmospheric, authoritative curtain raiser. It reimagines the roiling political culture in which young ...

When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...

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 ...

Fun fact: Feb. 12, 1809, is the birthdate for both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. While we tend to contemplate “The Great Emancipator” as fully formed well before he became the 16t… ...

Jon Meacham Highlights Abraham Lincoln’s Moral Code in a New, Essential Biography Meacham will discuss And There Was Light Oct. 23 Chris Scott, Chapter16.org ...

LINCOLN.; The First Biography of Him, Now Extremely Scarce and Almost Unknown, Beautifully Reprinted. Share full article. Sept. 8, 1900. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

My interest in Lincoln was driven by the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. As a student of leadership, I found it one of the most insightful ...

Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks with NPR about his new biography, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. It examines Lincoln's actions as well as motivations.

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Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks with NPR about his new biography, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. It examines Lincoln's actions as well as motivations.