In his book, Jon Meacham aims to recraft a usable ... Review by John Fabian Witt Every generation gets its own Abraham Lincoln biography. But if time seems to move faster these days, then perhaps ...

began a multivolume Lincoln biography with this atmospheric, authoritative curtain raiser. It reimagines the roiling political culture in which young Abraham Lincoln waged his earliest and most ...

WGLT talks to Raymond McKoski, the author of a new biography of David Davis, whose mansion and historic site in Bloomington ...

A new biography by historian Jon Meacham examines the oft-discussed life and legacy of former President Abraham ... book and their relevance to readers today, more than a century after Lincoln's ...

this is a modern classic about Abraham Lincoln (note: this is not a biography), his unlikely presidency and his cabinet comprising former political foes. The book received a great deal of ...

Nearly 90 years after his death—and with some 5,000 books already published about him—Abraham Lincoln is still one ... of a rambling but reflective biography, begun in 1937, which this time ...

New biographies of Abraham Lincoln inevitably invite the question: Why does the world need another? It is said that only Jesus of Nazareth has been the subject of more books, and he had an 1,800 ...

Jon Meacham’s excellent new biography, “And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and ... of literacy acquired in what Lincoln called “A.B.C. schools” and any books he could hungrily consume ...

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A new biography by historian Jon Meacham ... has authored a new book about the life and legacy of President Abraham Lincoln. "He was under immense political pressure to say, 'We'll settle all ...