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. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.Īt 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 illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln-an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment was essential to the story of justice in America. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. 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. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of AmericaĪ President who governed a country at war with itself has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis.
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