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

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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. Why God said “let there be light” is because He was commanding the light to come into being as part of His creation. He was also a white supremacist and a Confederate sympathizer who’d long harbored a seething hatred for President Lincoln. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. According to tradition, the Indian warrior was then about to take one of Captain Abraham’s young sons captive.

Written with wisdom and grace, his story of Lincoln’s complex moral journey to Emancipation mirrors America’s long quest to live up to its founding ideals. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 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 in 1865: his rise, his self-education, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. It's highly addictive to get core insights on personally relevant topics without repetition or triviality.On April 14, 1865, at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC, President Lincoln was attending a showing of the farce Our American Cousin. On the day of the funeral, the president, the First Lady, and Robert Lincoln asked for time alone with Willie. Raymond shared the letter with Lincoln, who replied that he was “not pledged to the ultimate extinction of slavery; does not hold the black man to be the equal of the white, unqualifiedly as Mr. Given that they're so opposed to each other, you'd be forgiven for thinking they must have been said by two different people with entirely conflicting beliefs.

Those who might turn to religion today to reject what Lincoln stood for - just as many Confederates did at the time - are, Meacham suggests, simply mistaken. With his latest work, Pulitzer Prize—winning biographer Meacham (the Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt Univ. As a personal aside, I loved the next years of Abraham Lincoln as he was a circuit lawyer and traveled throughout Illinois.In years of peril he pointed the country toward a future that was superior to the past and to the present; in years of strife he held steady.

A government is to protect each man in the entire and actual enjoyment of all the unalienable rights…. In the second scene of the third act, Booth snuck to the president’s box, in which he’d carved a small hole.A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. Echoes of that struggle still ring out today, making it essential to keep Lincoln’s story at the forefront of American consciousness. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Four miles away from Lincoln’s White House, at the Washington Navy Yard, the laborer Michael Shiner understood the president. Under a legal principle established in Missouri known as “once free, always free,” a lower court agreed with Scott.