Book description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠Pulitzer Prizeâwinning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting howâand whyâhe confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America.
âMeacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.ââHenry Louis Gates, Jr.
Winner of theâŚ
Why read it?
2 authors picked And There Was Light as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Gripping, heartbreakingly beautiful storytelling by one of our most brilliant historians about Abraham Lincoln, who is referenced to the point of clichĂŠ in American politics, but poorly (or incompletely) understood.
I read/listened to this book on a long overseas assignment, with lots of solitary time, hikes, and travelâsome of it by boat. This book was the unifying thread that ran through this trip.
Reading it was a sort of voyage itself, the kind that offers perspective and at the end, made me wiser, clearer, and somehow a better citizen. It could have been a too heavy subject, but the bookâŚ
In general, I dislike politics, but so many of our friends recommended Meachamâs new book on Lincoln that my husband and I decided to read it together.
Oh. My. Goodness. The book not only reveals so much more about Lincoln, the man than I knew, but it took us deep into the politics and the mind of the nation as it plunged into the Civil War.
It was not only mesmerizing but sobering. In many ways, the âstate of the nationâ back in the 1860s sounded eerily similar both to the polarized political parties of our day but also deeplyâŚ
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