And There Was Light:
A review of

And There Was Light:

Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

Jon Meacham • Random House • 2022

The Human Side of Lincoln

by David Meyer

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham presents an emotionally rich biography of Abraham Lincoln, offering a full and human portrait of the man who saved America.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham – author of biographies of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson – presents Abraham Lincoln as a principled pragmatist. Lincoln deeply opposed slavery, but he knew he could end it only by harnessing the will of white voters.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln’s family taught him that slavery was unjust and unseemly in a democracy that purported to value fairness and equality.

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