{"product_id":"and-there-was-light-abraham-lincoln-and-the-american-struggle","title":"And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize • Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. 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. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen 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, essential to the story of justice in America, began as he grew up in an antislavery Baptist community; who insisted that slavery was a moral evil; and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him to see the right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans, Lincoln’s story illustrates the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Volume Bookshop \u0026 Studio, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43578969358372,"sku":"9780553393965","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/8657\/1300\/files\/9780553393965.jpg?v=1771687358","url":"https:\/\/volumebookshop.com\/products\/and-there-was-light-abraham-lincoln-and-the-american-struggle","provider":"Volume Bookshop \u0026 Studio, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}