02549cam a2200409 i 4500 609687016 TxAuBib 20221118120000.0 220518s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022023164 9780553393965 hbk. 0553393960 hbk. (OCoLC)1305911410 TxAuBib rda Meacham, Jon, author And there was light. And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle / Jon Meacham. Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle. First edition. New York : Random House, [2022] xxxvii, 676 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 577-634) and index. "At once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen in popular minds as the greatest of American presidents--a remote icon--or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. This ... portrait gives us a very human Lincoln--an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment was essential to the story of justice in America. Here is the Lincoln who, as a boy, was steeped in the sermons of emancipation by Baptist preachers; who insisted that slavery was a moral evil; and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him light to see the right. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on Good Friday 1865: his rise, his self-education through reading, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end"-- Provided by publisher. 20221118. Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Views on slavery. Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Religion. Presidents Biography United States. Slavery Political aspects United States History 19th century. . Slaves Emancipation United States. United States Race relations History 19th century. United States Politics and government 1861-1865. United States Politics and government 1845-1861. Biographies. QS7