And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle (Random House Large Print)

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Lincoln was not all he might have been—few human beings ever are—but he was more than many men have ever been. But if this book helps to refute and drown out some of the noise from the anti-Lincoln extremes, perhaps there is something our modern-day leaders can learn from Lincoln after all. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. That the president continued to express respect for slavery where it existed was crushing; by pledging to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts, Douglass said, Lincoln had portrayed himself as “an excellent slave hound. Her favorite things to do are spending time with her family and friends, reading, and spending time outside.

And the selection of the racist Andrew Johnson as his re-election running mate (not Lincoln’s choice, Meacham points out, and it was a purely political calculation and not an endorsement of Johnson’s integrity).

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In addition to these truths, God also says, “Let there be light,” as a precursor of the Light who was coming into the world, His Son Jesus. How Lincoln dealt with the polarization in the country at his time was fascinating and gives the reader hope today. God set these lights in the sky to light the earth, to govern the day and night, and to separate the light from the darkness. Under a legal principle established in Missouri known as “once free, always free,” a lower court agreed with Scott.

Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. One story in local circles was that Nancy Hanks had been impregnated by a man named Abraham Enlow (also sometimes spelled “Enloe”) before her marriage to Thomas Lincoln and that Abraham Lincoln was Enlow’s natural son. He currently serves as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral and contributes to the New York Times Book Review as well as other publications. The Bible tells us that God created the heavens and the earth and everything else that exists by simply speaking them into existence (Genesis 1).

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle is biographical book about Abraham Lincoln. We learn about his relationship with his father and mother, his self-education through reading, his bouts of depression, and the women in his life. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. It is a story that shows Lincoln as a real human being, not a mythical figure, and Meacham delivers it almost as well as he has written it.A government is to protect each man in the entire and actual enjoyment of all the unalienable rights…. Calendar arrived safely in plastic-free packaging - which I've not seen before with a calendar, so kudos for that. I have read other Lincoln biographies so I was familiar with a lot of this material, but this book took a slightly different approach to Lincoln’s complicated story.