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A Biography
Random House
January 2009
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Featuring: Abraham Lincoln
816 pages
ISBN: 1400064996
EAN: 9781400064991
Kindle: B001NLKSCU
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Non-Fiction Biography
Everyone wants to define the man who signed his name “A.
Lincoln.” In his lifetime and ever since, friend and foe
have taken it upon themselves to characterize Lincoln
according to their own label or libel. In this magnificent
book, Ronald C. White, Jr., offers a fresh and compelling
definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity–what today’s
commentators would call “authenticity”–whose moral compass
holds the key to understanding his life.
Through
meticulous research of the newly completed Lincoln Legal
Papers, as well as of recently discovered letters and
photographs, White provides a portrait of Lincoln’s
personal, political, and moral evolution. White shows us
Lincoln as a man who would leave a trail of thoughts in his
wake, jotting ideas on scraps of paper and filing them in
his top hat or the bottom drawer of his desk; a country
lawyer who asked questions in order to figure out his own
thinking on an issue, as much as to argue the case; a
hands-on commander in chief who, as soldiers and sailors
watched in amazement, commandeered a boat and ordered an
attack on Confederate shore batteries at the tip of the
Virginia peninsula; a man who struggled with the immorality
of slavery and as president acted publicly and privately to
outlaw it forever; and finally, a president involved in a
religious odyssey who wrote, for his own eyes only, a
profound meditation on “the will of God” in the Civil War
that would become the basis of his finest
address.
Most enlightening, the Abraham Lincoln who
comes into focus in this stellar narrative is a person of
intellectual curiosity, comfortable with ambiguity, unafraid
to “think anew and act anew.”
A transcendent,
sweeping, passionately written biography that greatly
expands our knowledge and understanding of its subject,
A. Lincoln will engage a whole new generation of
Americans. It is poised to shed a profound light on our
greatest president just as America commemorates the
bicentennial of his birth.
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