Jon Meacham Highlights Abraham Lincoln’s Moral Code in a New, Essential Biography Meacham will discuss And There Was Light Oct. 23 Chris Scott, Chapter16.org Oct 18, 2022 ...

1. The author, a Clinton White House adviser, began a multivolume Lincoln biography with this atmospheric, authoritative curtain raiser. It reimagines the roiling political culture in which young ...

Jon Meacham’s excellent new biography, “And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle,” illuminates how Lincoln’s personal growth and travails enabled him to lead a nation ...

Every generation gets its own Abraham Lincoln biography. But if time seems to move faster these days, then perhaps it is altogether fitting and proper that our generation should have so many. The ...

New scholarship shows that Abraham Lincoln was a deeply sensitive man who embraced radical acts of inclusion to keep the ...

There was the estimable “ Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer ” from Fred Kaplan in 2008 and the groundbreaking “ The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery ” by Eric Foner in 2011.

Lincoln prioritized democracy over his political future. A new biography explains why By Rachel Treisman Published October 18, 2022 at 4:01 AM CDT Listen • 7:01 Hulton Archive / Getty Images ...

Abraham Lincoln made history in 1863 when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, effectively freeing enslaved people across the U.S. But he expected it to cost him reelection. In his new book ...

It's only fitting, then, that a bookstore devoted to Mr. Lincoln and his life would thrive in Chicago. Since 1938, Abraham Lincoln Book Shop has operated as part bookstore, part museum.